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
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