Depending on the drive manufacture they might support a method of resetting the drive back to factory default via a identification number on the physical drive. If the drive is made by Samsung they call this PSID Revert.
The PBA is actually written to an area outside the normal storage of your drive and that is why no utilities you've tried have worked since the PBA actually isn't part of the logical disk. If the encryption server is no longer accessible the only method of resetting the drive would be if the vendor supported a factory reset option similar to what Samsung provides.
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November 16th, 2020 07:00
Hi @equinox,
Depending on the drive manufacture they might support a method of resetting the drive back to factory default via a identification number on the physical drive. If the drive is made by Samsung they call this PSID Revert.
The PBA is actually written to an area outside the normal storage of your drive and that is why no utilities you've tried have worked since the PBA actually isn't part of the logical disk. If the encryption server is no longer accessible the only method of resetting the drive would be if the vendor supported a factory reset option similar to what Samsung provides.
equinox
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November 16th, 2020 08:00
Thanks Steve, I'll look into this. The drive is made by Hynix, hopefully they'll have something I can use.