Cannot format SSD

GreenImpala · April 30, 2020

so ive had this ssd for a few months now, samsung evo 120gb and i had trouble formatting it and im just getting back to it now, ive tried several things but nothing seems to work, i can see it in bios and i even booted off of it (although it said try again because there is nothing on it), but i cant find it anywhere when i use windows (windows 10) not in diskpart, or disk management, im pretty lost at what to do now. As always help is appreciated

Bitter · April 30, 2020

Do any Samsung utilities find it? How about running a bootable Linux USB and seeing if it shows up in Gparted or similar?

GreenImpala · April 30, 2020

1 minute ago, Bitter said:

Do any Samsung utilities find it? How about running a bootable Linux USB and seeing if it shows up in Gparted or similar?

i remember it showing up in samsung magician but i dont see it there anymore but i havent done the other things, but im also not very sure what those things are

Bitter · April 30, 2020

3 minutes ago, GreenImpala said:

i remember it showing up in samsung magician but i dont see it there anymore but i havent done the other things, but im also not very sure what those things are

Google how to make a bootable Ubuntu USB, boot with that and select 'try Ubuntu', it'll have a utility called Gparted on it, that's like Windows Disk Management on steriods and can tell any drive to get rekt and format anything pretty much. If it's not showing up there then it's probably some kind of hardware issue. I assume you've tried a few different cables?

GreenImpala · April 30, 2020

1 minute ago, Bitter said:

Google how to make a bootable Ubuntu USB, boot with that and select 'try Ubuntu', it'll have a utility called Gparted on it, that's like Windows Disk Management on steriods and can tell any drive to get rekt and format anything pretty much. If it's not showing up there then it's probably some kind of hardware issue. I assume you've tried a few different cables?

Yes, ill try the Ubuntu thank you!

kb5zue · April 30, 2020

I would use the AOMEI Partition Assistant, and there is a FREE version. It works great and I have been using it for all my disk needs. It will recognize anything you put in the machine. You can then partition, format, just about anything you need with the free version.

https://www.diskpart.com/free-partition-manager.html