Help: I think I have "bricked" my ssd

[Calhoun]

Try this when "clean" does not work.

1. Run cmd prompt as admin.
2. diskpart
3. list disk
4. select disk (whatever # the hdd is here)
5. list partition
6. select partition (whatever # the partition is here)
7. delete partition override

The override command is a useful one.
If that doesn't work, connect it to a different PC and try the same thing.
To create one main partition of the whole disk (after partitions are deleted), type: create partition primary

 

[Air]

Try this when "clean" does not work.

1. Run cmd prompt as admin.
2. diskpart
3. list disk
4. select disk (whatever # the hdd is here)
5. list partition
6. select partition (whatever # the partition is here)
7. delete partition override

The override command is a useful one.
If that doesn't work, connect it to a different PC and try the same thing.
To create one main partition of the whole disk (after partitions are deleted), type: create partition primary

Thanks for the tip, just tryied it. No partitions found on the disk.

 

[R-T-B]

Thanks for the tip, just tryied it. No partitions found on the disk.

Does your drive have a "PSID" (followed by a long string of numbers) on it?

If so, it's opal compliant. This is useful because we can use an opal command to tell the drive firmware to do a secure erase and go back to the factory state with that number.

The utility you want that can do this is called "sedutil-cli" and is on github from the DriveTrustAlliance. It's not very well documented. But if you have those numbers, I can walk you through it.

 

[flappyone]

Hey, try
diskpart
and then "clean" command.
After that the SSD can be initialized again.
Moste helpful would also be a screenshot of Crystal Disk Info where we can see ALL raw values from the SSD:

 

[Calhoun]

Thanks for the tip, just tryied it. No partitions found on the disk.

Can you override a clean command, or create a new partition primary? If the SSD can be selected, but no partition is found, then it seems like a success. You lost your data, but the drive may still work.
I JUST had a Samsung 950 Pro SSD die on me after 1 year the other day. It was in RAID. Extremely inconvenient.

 

[silentbogo]

Thanks for the tip, just tryied it. No partitions found on the disk.

The partition table may be broken you need to re-initialize it.

Hey, try
diskpart
and then "clean" command.
After that the SSD can be initialized again.

Might require

convert mbr

just in case after cleaning, if the MBR is broken too.

 

[OneMoar]

if you do a clean it completely erases the drive MBR included
the optimize performance does two things and none of them directly affect the SSD

it disables write cache buffer flushing and depending on the drive creates a ram-disk buffer to increase random access performance at worst it could cause a corruption and trash the MFT but it not behaving after a clean .... yea dead drive

my guss the drive failed completely on its own bad timing ....

 

[timta2]

Optimising performance just means changing a few windows registry settings and 'trimming' your SSD instead of letting windows handle it afaik...

I cant see this option on the new samsung magician though

The new version sucks. Why they removed just about every feature is beyond me and makes it mostly useless.

 

[Miguel2013]

Friend, what I would do is a low level format to it using HDD Guru software http://hddguru.com/software/
I used his LLF tool on usb drives that I wasn't able to repartition after doing a failed "dd if of" to it. It helped me multiple times and I recommend it. run it as admin cause normal user won't see the drives put your admin password then when the program shows up select your disk and check "quick wipe" then continue. that takes only a few seconds... if it doesn't work then do a full format and good luck. I always had luck with quick wipes.

 

[Papahyooie]

I had an 840 (technically a lenovo OEM drive, but it was a re-stickered 840) die too, randomly. It's only a couple of years old, but one day said it was over its write limit. It went into "read only mode" in order to preserve the data so it could be backed up (nothing important on it anyway.) I've tried every tool imaginable to update the firmware, secure erase, etc etc... Nothing works. Doesn't make any sense, as it was in a laptop that was powered off for easily 70% of its life (Kitchen PC for watching TV while cooking, dishes, etc.) And somehow it went over its write limit.

840's suck.

 

[W1zzard]

Does your drive have a "PSID" (followed by a long string of numbers) on it?

I got the same error message while trying to secure erase a Crucial MX100. Turns out Opal TCG gets automatically activated when installing Windows 10 on supporting drives.

Solution: Use Crucial Storage Executive or sedutil on Linux to disable PSID (this will delete all data from the drive)

 

[m1ch4L]

The same problem here. I know it is 7 months since the last reply, but did you fix it, Air? I'm going to try fix it tonight.