SSD becomes read only and cannot boot, is it dead?

[Flanker]

So we have a pretty old Surface 5 Pro. One day it starts to BSOD whenever we tried to turn it on, it has the same message as this one:

Things I've tried:

• Made a USB recovery drive for Surface to try fix it, and I get "There was a problem when resetting your PC. No changes were made." I also tried "dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth" as suggested from MS website and that didn't work either
• Tried a normal windows installation USB drive and just reformat the whole SSD and reinstall windows like I normally do. Well, none of the partitions can be deleted or formatted, and none of them allow me to install windows on them because they are "read only"
• I tried using disk part to unset the read only flag with "attribute disk clear readonly" and it failed with "diskpart failed to clear disk attributes"

Should I declare the disk dead and bury it? Or is there anything else I can try?

 

[Solaris17]

Yes and even if you could get it back (I’m sure someone will want you to secure erase which will fail ) I would never trust this drive again.

 

[SPDIF]

Yep you can declare it dead, SSD life is used up and then go into Read Only state, so you can copy all your stuff.

 

[Flanker]

Damn, thought as much lol.

Since Secure erase option from the recovery drive also fails. Do I need to do anything else to wipe the drive? I remember DBAN doesn't work for SSDs

 

[SPDIF]

Yes it goes to that state when the life is used op, even Secure Erase does not work anymore. Lucky they made it so you don't lose all important stuff from it.

To erase it, just crack it in two pieces, or under a hammer will do the job.
Unless you are a rocket scientist, no one will try to repair that broken SSD and fish pieces out of the trash.

 

[DR4G00N]

Do I need to do anything else to wipe the drive?

If it's important data, once you get everything you need/can off it take the drive out and smash it to bits. Hard to beat a hammer for surefire data erasure.