Securely Wiping Internal Drives using the Lenovo UEFI BIOS

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The Lenovo UEFI BIOS has the ability to natively perform a NVMe Secure Erase on an Internal NVMe SSD, or Sanitization on a SATA SSD or a Secure Erase on a HDD.

The wipe procedure will be quick for a NVMe SSD or SATA SSD but may take several hours for a HDD.

Unfortunately this wipe routine requires setting a temporary Drive Password. Lenovo state it is impossible to use the drive if a Drive Password is set and the Password is forgotten. i.e. the only fix is physical drive replacement so be careful when doing this.

Doing this will require OS reinstallation from Bootable USB. For more details for Windows see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oal1vwFjd-w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3JRFmnN8LU (Dell will update for a Lenovo if there is interest)

For Ubuntu see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqJBniwj1Mg

#Lenovo #SSD #Wipe



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