My Hard disk was totally fine since I tried to format it using the 'ATA Enhanced Secure Erase' option on gnome disk utility. Now I can not formate or use it.
Every time I try to format it this error is showed: "Error wiping device: Failed to probe the device 'dev/-sdb' (udisks-error-quark, 0)"
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Santo Shakil
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Note you must have a PARTITION to format
(generally, with USB/Flash drives it may work without, but better have it there too for ease of use).
If you STILL have a problem after that; as I see /dev/sdb above,
try exactly this (to clear any invalid partitioning data):
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=1
and then try to REDO the partitioning and format the relevant partition(s).
Hannu
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With a little luck you can unlock the harddisk with sudo hdparm --security-unlock "xxxx" /dev/ and then with sudo hdparm --security-disable "xxxx" /dev/ (instead of you have to specify your harddisk in question. For example sda).
