Ok, I learnt this the hard way. After following the firmware upgrade instructions posted on Support | RunCore and running the firmware upgrade procedure successfully off a MS-DOS boot USB on my Samsung D die Flash#8 64GB SSD, I was shocked to encounter the following BIOS message when restarting the drive.
I'm currently in the midst of attempting to recover the SSD but first, need to get my hands on a Runcore ZIF external USB drive enclosure that has a green (not dark blue) PCB. It's a complicated procedure I need to do, failing which my only other choice is to RMA the drive, which I'm trying to avoid.
I'm posting this here as a warning and will update if I'm able to successfully recover and 'unlock' my drive.
DRIVE0 HARD DISK LOCKED
ENTER PASSWORD [ ]
No password I tried would unlock the drive. Several e-mail exchanges with Runcore's China support later, and to cut a long story short, I was informed that I should have updated from 1571 to 1819, and then from 1819 to 1916. Don't ask me how I should have known that or where I can even download the 1819 firmware ugprade files?!ENTER PASSWORD [ ]
I'm currently in the midst of attempting to recover the SSD but first, need to get my hands on a Runcore ZIF external USB drive enclosure that has a green (not dark blue) PCB. It's a complicated procedure I need to do, failing which my only other choice is to RMA the drive, which I'm trying to avoid.
I'm posting this here as a warning and will update if I'm able to successfully recover and 'unlock' my drive.
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