HDD locked after failed Secure Erase

[marcochi]

Hi everyone,

a couple of days ago I tried running a Secure Erase on HDD2 (a Toshiba 4TB drive) on my F2-220 but during the process there was a power loss. After rebooting I found out that the drive was password locked and could not run secure erase again. I tried connecting the drive to my Windows pc (through an external SATA to USB adapter connected after boot) to perform a format but it seems like it's now password protected and no tool can access it. I tried unlocking it using various passwords including the TOS password, but nothing seems to work.
Is there a default password that TOS sets when running secure erase? Is there any way I can recover this disk?
TOS was updated to the latest version when I started Secure Erase.

Thanks for your help.

[TMroy]

The drive can get locked if power failure during the secure erase. There is quite a lot of similar information online. I got one for your reference, hopefully, it can be helpful.
https://poyu.co.uk/2018/04/13/unlock-hd ... ure-erase/

You can search for more related information with google.