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Solved format ssd drive

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I have a 2.5" SSD that failed. It was the C: drive from my laptop which I have now replaced. I would like to format and reuse the drive and I don't need to recover any data or partitions.

The drive has five partitions;
500mb Healthy EFI,
459mb Healthy Recovery,
12.02 gb Healthy Recovery,
1.07gb healthy Recovery
(F:) 105.09gb RAW Healthy (basic data partition)

I have tried to format
from explorer and nothing happens - unable to complete
from disk manager and the blue circle keeps spinning
tried using diskpart, got as far as clean when I got this
"DiskPart has encountered an error: The semaphore timeout period has expired.
See the System Event Log for more information."

The event log gave me no information

is there another way to reformat the drive. ie. delete the partitions via disk manager? what would that do? Willing to try any out of the box ideas before I bin it.

thanks
 
All depends on how the SSD has failed.
Could be the processor chip, multiple NAND cells, or a voltage regulator.
Sounds like it has suffered enough of a failure that it is now unusable.

Was it under warranty still?
Plus, why would you want to use a storage medium known to now be unreliable? :)
 
Hi Bruce, thanks for the reply. No it wasn't under warranty. It comes from a 2018 laptop so I suppose I have my moneys worth from it.
Why would I reuse it? I thought maybe something like just a bad sector that a format would repair, I dunno.
I just have an aversion to throwing things away if there is a likelihood of repair and this would be a learning opportunity..
Oh well, It's no big deal
many thanks
 
While your theory on trying to re-use stuff is valid, and one I also agree with, when it comes to things that you depend on, like your storage mediums, once they go pear-shaped, it's not worth the risk.

I can just imagine - "Hey Grandpa, we found this old defib at the dump, we gave it a good clean and reckon it'll do you fine" :)
 
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