Windows 10: Secure Erase SSD Samsung

I have a samsung SSD and a PNY SSD that I installed on my laptop. I get an error and fix complete when I boot up windows 10. I was told I should do a secure erase and reinstall windows 10. I have tired using samsung magician and make bootable USB but nothing happens. My Samsung SSD is my main drive c:/ with windows 10 on it. Any ideas or suggestions?

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Please help! Corrupted OS

Hello,

so i checked and i did a samsung secure erase of the ssd. I reinstalled and it was working fine until i started getting bluesceens, and i didnt even do anything. I did plug in my wireless adaptor after the install. Would it ne good to try a format of the
ssd?

 

Install windows from hard drive to another hard drive

Since you have successfully installed Windows 10, the only problem left is clean the bootable SSD.

However, you cannot format it like you did to other HDDs for two reasons.

1. It contains a bootable system so you need to delete it or format it in WinPE mode, i.e. without booting Windows.

2. It is an SSD so you cannot simply format it to get all data erased. The most secure way is to

secure erase SSD.

It is not a difficult task, but to create WinPE bootable device, you may need to find your USB drive first. Or, connect your SSD as the secondary device and try to erase it under Windows environment.

Regards.

 

Just restore using your backup image. That would put you at the point you made your last backup.

 

Would like to do a complete fresh install of windows I get error when windows boots up... scanning and repairing drive.. my SSD is my main drive

 

See if this helps Windows 10 - Clean Install - Windows 10 Forums

 

I would only have the Samsung SSD hooked up when you do the install. Sometimes files get scattered when you have other HD or SSD hooked up.

 

will that secure erase my SSD drive? tried to send a picture but it wont let me

 

so take the laptop apart again and take out second SSD drive?

 

Try the clean install first. Sometimes it is not necessary to remove other drives if they don't have an OS on them but if it doesn't work properly then yes. A clean install will wipe the Samsung SSD and install like the current OS was never there.

 

error I get is scanning and repairing drive (\\?\Volume{5ed628e8-b12f-4f35-be83-dad1a9e4a468}): 100% complete

then it boots right into windows

 

Just do a clean install as recommended above but hard to say how it will come out with that other SSD attached. Won't hurt to try. You don't have a backup image when it was working good?

 

no, I dont mind starting over, just heard I sould do a secure erase to make sure it cleans any bad sectors or put it back to what it was when I bought it

Couldnt get samsung secure erase to work even after creating samesung boot USB

 

Well here is what happened... Got desperate and made an appointment with GeekSquad who said on phone it was going to cost $150 to $200 to fix my problem! Just as i am about to pack up laptop I said no way do they know more then tenforums.com billions of readers to 5 guys at bestbuy. Did clean install and BAM!! Error gone and everything back the way it was and FAST it is again... Thank again to all that replied you saved me $$...