Corrupted NVMe?

[Ron30]

So I got a T700 Pro for my new PC, but I'm using an external NVMe enclosure to connect it via USB-C to my old PC to clone one of my old drives. I initialized the drive and began a quick format via disk management, but it was stuck formatting for over an hour. I attempted to cancel it and ran into all sorts of problems where I could no longer delete the drive or partition, couldn't see it in 'This PC', etc. I kept getting errors like "the request could not be performed. I/O error". I tried wiping and fixing it using diskpart but continued to get I/O errors and semaphore timeout errors.

 

I took the drive back and got it replaced under warranty.

 

With a new drive in hand, I cleaned and did a quick format using diskpart this time. The quick format took under a minute and the drive was working. I began using Macrium Reflect to clone my existing drive over, when I noticed that the new drive was setup as MBR, not GPT. I cancelled the clone process, which is when I started running into trouble again. Once again, I was getting semaphore timeout issues when using diskpart to 'clean' the drive. In disk management, the drive shows up as 'Disk 2' but I can't delete the volume. Under that drive, was another 'Disk 2' drive, both showing as 2 TB (which is the correct total size of the drive), but the second one was not initialized. Disk management allowed me to initialize and begin a quick format. Once again, it's been running the format task for over an hour, and when I look at the disk in diskpart, it shows only 1024KB of free space (possiblt partition 1, which is the one I can't delete, maybe). I'm too scared to attempt to cancel the format again.

 

Is there anything I can do to just wipe this drive and set it up again. I won't attempt to clone my old drive anymore.

 

[Ron30]

So the drive finally finished formatted but was set as RAW. I couldn't assign a letter to it, but diskpart now shows 2TB free. After cleaning in diskpart, disk management now listed 'Disk 2' a 3rd time, and the 3rd one was not initialized. I used diskpart to perform a 'clean' and it initialized the disk and showed it as having 2TB of unallocated space. I did another 'quick ntfs format' via diskpart which has now been running for 2 hours. Disk management still shows it as a RAW file system so I'm hoping it's just taking time to convert. Diskpart always shows 0% complete when formatting until it instantly jumps to 100%, so I can't really see progress.

 

[Ron30]

3 hours and still formatting. How long should I wait before trying to cancel it?

[Ron30]

I cancelled it after 5 hours. I ejected the drive and inserted it into a different USB port. When refreshing disk management, the 2 phantom drives still showed but restarting disk management removed them. I was back to having a raw drive. I wasn't able to use the convert command in cmd, but diskpart did allow me to clean it, recreate the partition and perform a quick ntfs format, and reassign a drive letter, so it is now a functioning drive again.