Cannot Install Windows on Erased SSD

[paulsydaus]

Long time viewer of the YouTube channel.  First time poster.

I think I have bricked my SSD (Samsung 970 EVO)

I don't know how to recover without buying another SSD...

I was attempting to re-install Windows 10 after encountering an unrelated audio driver issue.

I used Asus Secure Erase on the SSD from within BIOS.

Now, when booting from a Windows Media Tool created USB, I cannot format the SSD.

From within the Windows Setup Tool, I only see Drive 1 Unallocated Space Total Size 0.0 MB, Free Space 0.0 MB.

Format is greyed out.  New is available but doesn't let me select anything other than 0.0 MB.

Diskpart List Disk shows Disk 1 Online, but again the Size is 0.0 MB and Free is 0.0 MB.

I'm convinced the hardware is OK, because I can see the drive normally in the BIOS.

But nothing I've tried so far will let me format the drive

Is there anything I can do or is it dead?

How to I initialize an SSD which has been erased with Secure Erase?

[Radium_Angel]

18 minutes ago, paulsydaus said:

Long time viewer of the YouTube channel.  First time poster.

I think I have bricked my SSD (Samsung 970 EVO)

I don't know how to recover without buying another SSD...

I was attempting to re-install Windows 10 after encountering an unrelated audio driver issue.

I used Asus Secure Erase on the SSD from within BIOS.

Now, when booting from a Windows Media Tool created USB, I cannot format the SSD.

From within the Windows Setup Tool, I only see Drive 1 Unallocated Space Total Size 0.0 MB, Free Space 0.0 MB.

Format is greyed out.  New is available but doesn't let me select anything other than 0.0 MB.

Diskpart List Disk shows Disk 1 Online, but again the Size is 0.0 MB and Free is 0.0 MB.

I'm convinced the hardware is OK, because I can see the drive normally in the BIOS.

But nothing I've tried so far will let me format the drive

Is there anything I can do or is it dead?

How to I initialize an SSD which has been erased with Secure Erase?

Use a Linux LiveUSB disk, it should see the drive and at least be able to make some kind of partition, which Windows can then overwrite.

Alternately, slap it in another PC as a slave drive and use Disk Genius to correct it