ssd samsung samsung magician failed to create bootable usb device for secure erase

[Kankitst]

hello.

I have a problem about create bootable usb for secure erase with Samsung magician on ssd850evo that I buy about 3 days ago.

it said "failed to create bootable usb device for secure erase" . I already try with many usb drive and reinstall windows on both mbr and gpt. or set IDE AHCI.

Is it because bad ssd or software problem here.

if it because bad ssd. I wil return it to store.

 

thank you very much.

[Electronics Wizardy]

what are you trying to do?

 

 

[adithyay328]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

what are you trying to do?

 

 

 

Same exact question, the question is phrased a bit peculiarly. 

[Kankitst]

I want to create a bootable device for when time I need to use come.

Just want to kept it like a tool.

if i get some trouble in future.

[MattBoxer]

19 minutes ago, Kankitst said:

hello.

I have a problem about create bootable usb for secure erase with Samsung magician on ssd850evo that I buy about 3 days ago.

it said "failed to create bootable usb device for secure erase" . I already try with many usb drive and reinstall windows on both mbr and gpt. or set IDE AHCI.

Is it because bad ssd or software problem here.

if it because bad ssd. I wil return it to store.

 

thank you very much.

Have you tried just making a Win 10 bootable (download it from their website) USB drive and also don't worry about the samsung software if you want to erase a drive properly just use partition manager on a different PC and delete everything and nothing will be left. (if that is what you want to do)

[adithyay328]

1 minute ago, Kankitst said:

I want to create a bootable device for when time I need to use come.

Just want to kept it like a tool.

if i get some trouble in future.

 

An 850EVO as a bootable backup drive? Damn, how much did that thing cost? Either way, try other tools, like CMD, to make it bootable. That is the standard way to do it.

[Kankitst]

 

2 minutes ago, adithyay328 said:

An 850EVO as a bootable backup drive? Damn, how much did that thing cost? Either way, try other tools, like CMD, to make it bootable. That is the standard way to do it.

LoL

 

I mean.

I want to create a usb drive for bootable device for secure erase 850evo.

 

I'm not good with english.

I'm sorry. If I cant answer properly.

[adithyay328]

2 minutes ago, Kankitst said:

 

LoL

 

I mean.

I want to create a usb drive for bootable device for secure erase 850evo.

 

I'm not good with english.

I'm sorry. If I cant answer properly.

 

No prob man, we cool with English learners. Either way, like stated, CMD bootable process is like, the best way to do it. I'll send the link right here: 

BTW this works for every windows version, don't worry about the title.

 

[Kankitst]

9 minutes ago, adithyay328 said:

No prob man, we cool with English learners. Either way, like stated, CMD bootable process is like, the best way to do it. I'll send the link right here: 

BTW this works for every windows version, don't worry about the title.

 

Yeah.

But the problem is not create bootable usb device.

It was create secure erase device.

When I go to samsung magician secure erase page and press start button to create secure erase boot device.

it said fail to create.

I want to check is anyone get the same result.

That i can confirm is it was software issue or not.

[adithyay328]

Just now, Kankitst said:

Yeah.

But the problem is not create bootable usb device.

It was create secure erase device.

When I go to samsung magician secure erase page and press start button to create secure erase boot device.

it said fail to create.

I want to check is anyone get the same result.

That i can confirm is it was software issue or not.

 

Naw, I've never used that tool for anything boot related. Sorry.

[Kankitst]

Just now, adithyay328 said:

Naw, I've never used that tool for anything boot related. Sorry.

It ok.

Thank you very much for help.

[MSWindowsinside]

I know this thread is quite old, but I was just pulling my hair out over the same problem and ended up here thanks to Google. Turns out Samsung Magician only likes unformatted USB drives. So what you need to do is open CMD or Powershell with administrator rights and run Diskpart, after you issue the command LIST DISK to see what drive is your USB drive. If you found your USB drive type: SELECT DISK x (replace x with drive number) and then type CLEAN.

 

Restart Samung Magician and the bootable USB drive should be created correctly now.

[ferjat]

Thank you very much. It works perfectly now.

[Pushbutton40]

While this thread is now very old, I wanted to thank you as this is still the resolution to getting that damn bootable drive to work. And I tried everything else.

 

Thanks again from the future!

[sid02]

Just wanted to add that the Samsung Magician software seems to be a bit selective about USB flash drive conpatibility. I tried several Sandisk and PNY flash drives to no avail.

 

A reddit post said that they kept trying and found a USB drve that worked. I kept trying and had an ancient Jetflash 2gb drive that did work. The Jetflash drive had data on it and did not need the CLEAN command.

 

The secure erase feature seems to work at the controller level and takes about 5 seconds. It works great!

[PirateCoffee]

I must agree, that it is VERY difficult to find a USB drive that works, I've gone through a bunch but Samsung keeps spitting out errors that it failed to create a bootable USB device. May end up reinstalling windows on it and calling it a day.