Unable to wipe drive

[thedangerine]

I have a drive that had windows on it that got bjorked somehow. It boots to the thing that list troubleshooting options like reset this pc, command prompt, etc. Nothing in there works at all including reset pc with or without files, so I tried hooking it up to another computer to wipe it and windows won't let me reformat it since it is write protected. I have tried just about every fix I can find online including clear disk attributes in diskpart, I also tried clearing the write protection in regedit and still no dice. Tried clearing the disk via a windows installer and that didn't work either. Any ideas of wack softwares out there that could help?

[Windows7ge]

Are you familiar with how or why Windows started misbehaving in the first place? Drives can enter a write protected state when they're failing. The drive may be dying.

[thedangerine]

Just now, Windows7ge said:

Are you familiar with how or why Windows started misbehaving in the first place? Drives can enter a write protected state when they're failing. The drive may be dying.

I thought at first the drive may be dying but when I run a smart status check on the drive it passes so I figured my install just got messed up, I have no idea what made it start acting this way

[Windows7ge]

1 minute ago, thedangerine said:

I thought at first the drive may be dying but when I run a smart status check on the drive it passes so I figured my install just got messed up, I have no idea what made it start acting this way

Did you try cleaning the disk via CMD?

[thedangerine]

Just now, Windows7ge said:

Did you try cleaning the disk via CMD?

Yeah I went into cmd and then diskpart and tried selecting the disk then clean, as well as attributes disk clear readonly, and reformatting the specific volumes in diskpart

[Windows7ge]

3 minutes ago, thedangerine said:

Yeah I went into cmd and then diskpart and tried selecting the disk then clean, as well as attributes disk clear readonly, and reformatting the specific volumes in diskpart

No dice? What error does it give?

[thedangerine]

1 minute ago, Windows7ge said:

No dice? What error does it give?

That's the weird part is it doesn't give an error it just says it did it but then when I try to reformat it says it is write protected again

[Windows7ge]

3 minutes ago, thedangerine said:

That's the weird part is it doesn't give an error it just says it did it but then when I try to reformat it says it is write protected again

How long have you had it? Still in warranty? This behavior isn't intuitive of a working drive. Not unless you got a nasty virus that infected the firmware or something.

[thedangerine]

6 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

How long have you had it? Still in warranty? This behavior isn't intuitive of a working drive. Not unless you got a nasty virus that infected the firmware or something.

I don't think it is under warranty, it's not a huge deal as I have plenty of other drives, it's just annoying because I can't get it to work and I am not seeing anything that would explain why unless it really just is that the drive itself is messed up in an unfixable way

 

[Windows7ge]

9 minutes ago, thedangerine said:

I don't think it is under warranty, it's not a huge deal as I have plenty of other drives, it's just annoying because I can't get it to work and I am not seeing anything that would explain why unless it really just is that the drive itself is messed up in an unfixable way

 

HDD? (3.5"/2.5")? SSD? (2.5"/M.2?) PCI_e SSD? (NVMe)

 

Approximately how old is it?

[thedangerine]

5 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

HDD? (3.5"/2.5")? SSD? (2.5"/M.2?) PCI_e SSD? (NVMe)

 

Approximately how old is it?

NVMe Just over a year old

[Windows7ge]

5 minutes ago, thedangerine said:

NVMe Just over a year old

Oof, that is disappointing. When a SSD write protects that's not good. What model and from whom? I'd say most manufacturers offer at least a 2 year warranty.

[thedangerine]

1 minute ago, Windows7ge said:

Oof, that is disappointing. When a SSD write protects that's not good. What model and from whom? I'd say most manufacturers offer at least a 2 year warranty.

It is an ADATA XPG SX6000 that is technically under warranty still but I don't have an invoice to prove my purchase from an authorized reseller. Probably going to try and see if they can just do it anyway, or see if I can figure out a way to get an invoice

[Windows7ge]

Just now, thedangerine said:

It is an ADATA XPG SX6000 that is technically under warranty still but I don't have an invoice to prove my purchase from an authorized reseller. Probably going to try and see if they can just do it anyway, or see if I can figure out a way to get an invoice

You may not have the paper invoice on hand but if you have an account on the website you bought it from the invoices are sometimes saved in your purchase history for download. That's the case for Newegg at least. I've had to do this myself a couple times over the years.