Secure erasing boot drive SSD

[mayfly]

Hello everyone, how are you doing?

 

I have two laptops. An old laptop with Samsung SATA SSD and a new laptop with SK Hynix NVMe SSD. Both laptops have only one slot for the storage devices. I want to perform secure erase. For my Samsung SATA SSD I tried Samsung Magician and Parted Magic, for the new laptop I tried SSD manufacturers software. In all instances I wasn't able to pass the "frozen drive" warning. Samsung Magician tells me to power cycle the SSD (how can I do that with a laptop), Parted Magic's puts the system into sleep in order to pass the frozen drive but when the system wakes up it directly boots into Windows. SK Hynix software doesn't give me the option to secure erase.

 

Is it not possible to secure erase an SSD if the primary OS installed on it? If the answer is yes, is there a loop hole that I can use? For example if I install a Linux distro from a bootable USB drive (such as Ubuntu) can I secure erase my SSD?

 

Thank you.

[Kilrah]

For the SATA SSD you can disconnect/reconnect it while running partedmagic. For the issue that it boots on Windows you could try to just erase everything "non-securely" by creating a new partition table in gparted, then once there's no OS anymore it won't be able to boot into it.