I MESSED UP!

[PompaDaddy]

Scary title aside, Hi. I managed to corrupt my SSD (Boot drive ) and then I tried to use the Asus SSD Secure Erase feature, which then put it into Frozen Status Now I dont know how to unfreeze it, tried the unplugging ssd power and replugging method, but nah. WHAT DO I DO?  

[ItsDestini]

Yo just looking for possible solutions and yeah try going to bios and find a setting related to the ssd and set it to legacy. Hope this helps mate

[FBI]

Boot a boot able flash drive and reinstall whatever operating system you use.

[ItsDestini]

This might help although its for a m2 drive

[ItsDestini]

Pretty much try searching for possible options regarding the ssd in the bios and if that doesnt help or you wont find anything useful yeah reinstall windows and see if that helps as FBI said 

[Sjaakie]

No need for secure erase if you'll use it again for a new os. Just reinstall indeed.

[PompaDaddy]

34 minutes ago, Sjaakie said:

No need for secure erase if you'll use it again for a new os. Just reinstall indeed.

The thing is that since it's frozen it doesn't show up in the boot options and the only one is my USB, I'll try tomorrow again with a Win 11 usb and I'll update

[IkeaGnome]

5 minutes ago, PompaDaddy said:

The thing is that since it's frozen it doesn't show up in the boot options and the only one is my USB, I'll try tomorrow again with a Win 11 usb and I'll update

Do you have another drive you can install Windows on, even temporarily?

https://rog-forum.asus.com/t5/other-motherboards/ssd-secure-erase-status-frozen/td-p/491340

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Ok after doing some Googling I have learnt that this is Intel's doing in some way(i'm not blaming them, so hold up a sec) basically this "Frozen" labelling is a feature to stop anyone other than you from Secure Erasing your SSD's, setting a password, or even locking your drive down with ransomware. Easiest way to break the "Frozen" label is boot into Windows(if it's not your OS drive that is frozen) you can do one of a few things, put the drive into hibernate, or power it down completely, or, the last straw, pull the power from the drive while you're in Windows and then reconnect it. It's got something to do with UEFI BIOS and bypassing it, to make the drive usable again....seriously Secure Erasing drives is a damn pain in the neck. I have no experience with the Secure Erase implementation on the latest ROG boards, so I cannot comment on how good or bad it is, so I just suggest you keep out of the Secure Erase tab until you do need to perform a secure erase and then when you do, download something like Parted Magic, always works for me 

 

 

Edit: A user here was able to set their BIOS to Legacy and have their SSD come back. 

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/ssd-state-frozen-in-bios.3471135/

[PompaDaddy]

57 minutes ago, ItsDestini said:

This might help although its for a m2 drive

Aaaalright, so I followed the instructions, BUT!

[FBI]

1 minute ago, PompaDaddy said:

Aaaalright, so I followed the instructions, BUT!

Does that motherboard support hot swap sata? If it does you can probably plug in after you boot into the flashdrive.

[PompaDaddy]

1 minute ago, IkeaGnome said:

Do you have another drive you can install Windows on, even temporarily?

https://rog-forum.asus.com/t5/other-motherboards/ssd-secure-erase-status-frozen/td-p/491340

 

Unfortunately only ones that are dead. I've been on quite the journey since my backup laptop is so old even the media creation tool wont run on it lol

[PompaDaddy]

Just now, FBI said:

Does that motherboard support hot swap sata? If it does you can probably plug in after you boot into the flashdrive.

I actually have no idea, I have the Asus prime B560M-A. I'll try with a better iso on my usb 

[PompaDaddy]

Update: Working on it, got my ancient laptop to install an win 11 iso and I'll update y'all soon

[PompaDaddy]

Okay so I'm still stuck on the BOOTMGR is missing, heres all the pics I think u might need to help me

Attaching error screen, boot order, possible boot devices, secure boot, csm

I already tried booting first from UEFI USB, but still nothing

[Beerzerker]

4 hours ago, PompaDaddy said:

Aaaalright, so I followed the instructions, BUT!

OS error but the drive seems to be working again.
The boot sector/MBR is not right and sometimes if you're trying to do an install from a burned/copied (Pirated) iso it won't go well and you'll have this.
Only real option is to do a "From Scratch" install from proper media as in a real copy of Windows so you know that won't be a factor.

If expecting your old files to be there, remember you did use drive erase on it so..... Nope - Probrably not. 
Do the OS setup, let it format the disc and do it's install.

[PompaDaddy]

7 hours ago, Beerzerker said:

OS error but the drive seems to be working again.
The boot sector/MBR is not right and sometimes if you're trying to do an install from a burned/copied (Pirated) iso it won't go well and you'll have this.
Only real option is to do a "From Scratch" install from proper media as in a real copy of Windows so you know that won't be a factor.

If expecting your old files to be there, remember you did use drive erase on it so..... Nope - Probrably not. 
Do the OS setup, let it format the disc and do it's install.

What does a real copy of windows mean? I'm getting it from the microsoft site, About the files - they're already backed up before all that. The thing is it doesn't accept anything

[Sjaakie]

how are you putting windows on the usb drive? It needs to be made bootable. You can use the microsoft installation tool or burn the iso with rufus.

[PompaDaddy]

Just now, Sjaakie said:

how are you putting windows on the usb drive? It needs to be made bootable. You can use the microsoft installation tool or burn the iso with rufus.

The thing is as I mentioned my old (and only other device i have) laptop can't even run the media creation tool to put it on my usb so im referring to direct iso files

[Sjaakie]

Then install the iso with rufus to the usb so it becomes bootable

[PompaDaddy]

Rufus required windows 8, while my laptop has windows 7, any other version/alternative?

[Beerzerker]

6 hours ago, PompaDaddy said:

What does a real copy of windows mean? I'm getting it from the microsoft site, About the files - they're already backed up before all that. The thing is it doesn't accept anything

As long as you're getting it directly from Microsoft it's fine and genuine copy too. If getting it from an alternative site instead of directly from Microsoft it's entirely possible to have problems.... And even some bugs too.
Also, creating an iso from a genuine copy/image if it's not done correctly can cause problems too.
 

5 hours ago, Sjaakie said:

how are you putting windows on the usb drive? It needs to be made bootable. You can use the microsoft installation tool or burn the iso with rufus.

THIS.

I've used Rufus to create an iso before and it worked fine, it formatted the USB drive and all else for me and the install it created worked without issue.