Intel 750 bootable secure erase utility/software?

[CG4]

Guys, are you going to release a bootable software/utility for secure erasing our ssds (intel 750)?

I don't have a spare hdd / ssd, or a second system to swap, S.E. and then put it back o main system. I wouldn't do it even I had a second system...Thanks in advance!

[jbenavides]

Hello chr1407,

At this time, Intel does not provide a bootable tool that would allow formatting or doing a secure erase to the Intel® SSD 750 Series.

As you mentioned, the most common and recommended way to run the secure erase is booting from a different hard drive, with the 750 as secondary drive, however, that requires an additional boot drive, or a different computer. We will definitely consider your feedback about this, however, we cannot confirm if a different tool will provided in the future.

In our best effort, here is some additional information for your consideration:

- Use a bootable USB or Optical media to initialize the PC. We would advise to research about available options and choose one that fulfills your requirement.

Linux kernel 3.3 had a stable NVMe driver version included and various distributions have back ported the driver to previous kernel versions (eg:Linux kernel 3.10 and higher). It may also be possible to create bootable media with Windows* installations.

- Once the PC has booted to the OS, you can use https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/23931/Intel-Solid-State-Drive-Data-Center-Tool Intel® SSD Data Center Tool to run the "Nvmeformat" function, or in Windows* you can use https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/18455/Intel-Solid-State-Drive-Toolbox Intel® SSD Toolbox to run the secure erase.

[CG4]

Hey Jonathan!

Thnaks for your reply and your recommendations. I hope you guys reconsider and make something about it, cause its unbelievable that you (INTEL) don't have easy solutions ready for us, especially when we have paid a huge amount of money for your high end stuff (intel 750) and even lower end companies provide such stuff from day one!*Btw still waiting for a bug fix/firmware update about the hdd led activity on 750 pciex version... Hope you reconsider that too, cause its been a while now, and no one isn't even answering our post!Thanks again, Regards,Chris

[PHans4]

You can try to do it from the WinPE installation environment from a Windows installation disc.

Install either the 32bit or 64bit version of the Intel SSD Data Center Tool that Jonathan linked earlier.

Now copy the folder C:\isdct to a removable media like a USB stick or integrate it with your Windows installation media.

Next boot your computer from the installation media and continue up to where you can choose a driver.

At this stage you must load the Intel NVMe driver for your OS, when this is done don't press continue.

Instead press Shift+F10 which will bring up a command prompt, switch to the folder where you have copied isdct.

If you are not sure which driveletter it is on you can check by starting: diskpart(enter) then type list volume(enter)

Now you should see what driveletter corresponds to the media where you have put isdct.

Exit(enter) out of diskpart and press D:(enter) or which driveletter you saw corresponds previously.

Then type cd isdct(enter) and finally you should be able to launch isdct.exe.

Note that you can't use the 32bit version of isdct in a 64bit installation media because the installation media lacks WoW64

[CG4]

Thanx bro for your time and effort helping me out on this one!

But I hope these guys understand the need of such utility! We shouldn't be forced to do such stuff...