Need help. SSD won't format.

[Potoroca]

I bought a pre-owned SSD and I'm trying to format it and it says that it is being used. I have tried using Diskmgmt and Diskpart and no result. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[mooseducks86]

Does it give you an error? I have a ssd that has failed that for a while would just eject itself halfway through, but after much fooling around with it I got it to at least say "error writing to last sector of drive" or something. It was a OCZ drive (and now that its owned by toshiba.. i think... they said they wont honor the warranty)

[Virgule]

Is that the SSD you have your OS installed on ?

 

If yes, the only way to format it is to reinstall windows and format the drive in the drive options part of the installation.

 

If not, go in Disk management (search for "disk" in windows start menu) and locate the disk, right click, and format. If the disk doesn't show in disk management, it's possible it's because it's formatted in a different RAID mode than what your motherboard is set to. If you're at that point report back.

 

edit: If your problem is that you're formatting and it's crashing or giving you errors, run Seagate's SMART tool to scan the disk for errors.

 

TLDR : need more details

[AEA]

Search "Disk Managment" on Windows Start Menu, choose the SSD, right click "format"

 

If errors pop up I'm not really sure

[Potoroca]

Is that the SSD you have your OS installed on ?

 

If yes, the only way to format it is to reinstall windows and format the drive in the drive options part of the installation.

 

If not, go in Disk management (search for "disk" in windows start menu) and locate the disk, right click, and format. If the disk doesn't show in disk management, it's possible it's because it's formatted in a different RAID mode than what your motherboard is set to. If you're at that point report back.

 

edit: If your problem is that you're formatting and it's crashing or giving you errors, run Seagate's SMART tool to scan the disk for errors.

 

TLDR : need more details

The SSD appears in the letter D: and is not my OS drive. When I click format it tries but failed saying that I need to quit any application that are being used in the drive which is empty. I have tried Disk management and it won't let me click format(seems to be grayed). I tried using paragon to do a full wipe and it did not worked. I don't know what else to try.  

[Virgule]

The SSD appears in the letter D: and is not my OS drive. When I click format it tries but failed saying that I need to quit any application that are being used in the drive which is empty. I have tried Disk management and it won't let me click format(seems to be grayed). I tried using paragon to do a full wipe and it did not worked. I don't know what else to try.  

Try to delete D: so the partitioned space becomes unallocated space, THEN try to format again. The boot partition should be striped, check if that's correct.

 

Also run Seagate's SMART software.

[DarthSlater77]

try enabling hidden file and folders and windows system files.  control panel>files and folders>view tab>find show hidden files an folders in the list and find hide protected operating system files. unchecked the box for the OS files and show hidden folders. then go to the drive and see if stupid windows put something on the drive automatically without your knowledge. windows has a tendency to "do things for you" and it just turns into a pain in the A**. delete any files that show up on the drive and it should let you format it. if this dosent work use your OS disk to get into the windows set up utility. one of the steps lets you format a drive prior to instillation.  when windows is running it may not allow you to delete what it thins are "critical file's" because they are flagged that way. whiten the windows setup utility window isn't actually running so you can format the disk. the Linux method stated above should also work. just make shure to exit the windows setup after formatting the drive so you don't screw up your current OS.

[Potoroca]

Try to delete D: so the partitioned space becomes unallocated space, THEN try to format again. The boot partition should be striped, check if that's correct.

 

Also run Seagate's SMART software.

I tried removing Letter D: and it said "Assigning or removing drive letters on the current boot or pagefile volume is not allowed" 

[DarthSlater77]

I tried removing Letter D: and it said "Assigning or removing drive letters on the current boot or pagefile volume is not allowed" 

it sounds like the system is using it for a page file. Right click on computer from your desktop and go to property's, or go to system from control panel. In that window there should be an advanced system settings tab on the left. Select it and go to the advanced tab on the window that comes up. Under performance go to settings and again go to the advanced tab. In this window you should see "virtual memory", go to change. Midway down select "No paging file" and hit set. Windows will give you warning but just hit OK. On high performance systems a page file is unnecessary to have a page file for anything other than memory dumps. Other than that it just slows the system down because windows is using the disk and the RAM for memory and it increases the fetch time for the processor. If you still want a page file have it on a drive other than the SSD and keep it small. The constant reading and writing will significantly reduce the life span of your SSD not to mention take up the valuable space that could be used for games. The default windows setting is "Automatically manage" witch is probably why you previously empty SSD now has a page file on it. Turn it off and you should be able to format the drive.