I was in my BIOS for a ASRock motherboard Z590 chipset and noticed my SSD under the security tab in BIOS is listedd under HDD Security configuration.
Is there a specific reason for this as I don’t thing I have any security enabled on it and I bought the drive 2nd hand so I wanted to be sure why it is listed here as I have never noticed any of my other drives listed here…
I checked in Parted magic and it appeared there was no hidden partitions or anything. Just making sure nothing nefarious is going on here…
With the TMP security chips you can encrypt the drive. I think that this section of the BIOS is just letting you know that it sees the drive and you can enable some security features on it.
I did check into this more and it had another page I could get too under security and it appeared it was just that, options to add the security and a password, I just thought maybe it was password protected drive and there was a hidden partition or something…
Well I checked and secure erased it with parted magic and double checked the partitions with diskpart all looked fine so nothing wierd going on here…
I have 1 more concern will diskpart see a hidden partition if not dispart how can I see a hidden partition on a SSD?
EDIT: I just tried using diskpart and it seen the hidden partition on my C:/windows drive and on the D:/Nephs programs it did not list any just the 1 partition.
My concern is it was a used drive and maybe it had a hidden partition or maybe somethig is going on with it as when I am doing normal tasks like I tried to turn off Teamspeak it was way delayed and took many seconds to terminate that program even after hitting the X to close the program many times.
This leaves me to thing maybe a worm or similar was left on it causing havok on my current system or maybe I am just being paranoid lol!!
Get any linux live boot CD / USB stick image that includes the tool gparted. Boot from it and run gparted. There is no such thing as a partition hiding from you now, you will see it all uncensored.
@Poneybirds, Yes I use Parted Magic and did check GParted and it looked like 1 drive in the graphic no other partitions so I guess the drive must be clean of any worms or such as I even did a Secure erase on the drive before using it…