Fucky SSD

Alright gamers, I’ve tried pretty much every trick in the book on this one.

bought an SSD from a friend. It was new in the box. Never used. Tried to format it and had minor success a few months ago. I managed to install Squad on it, however after that anytime I tried to play it, I would no longer be able to access the drive. Additionally, after trying to wipe and reformat the drive from RAW to NTFS, disk management would often freeze up, and would always say that the formatting failed.

I recently bought a new power supply thinking maybe my old one wasn’t supplying enough power. At first, all seemed well. I was able to format the drive, set up a steam library on it, and even install a game again. I left it downloading over night.
However, upon returning to it after work in the morning, the drive simply says “local disk” which is not what I named it, does not let me view it, and shows up as being RAW format again. Additionally, anytime I try to wipe it and reformat back to NTFS, I again get the same message “ failed to format”.

I’ve tried every trick up my sleeve. New power cables, new PSU, different SATA cables and slots, everything. I really hope it’s not just a fucked SSD. Any advice?

also system specs:
MSI Z270a M5 gaming motherboard
Intel i7-7700K CPU
RX850 watt PSU
GTX 1060 6GB GPU
SSD is is a sea gate 1TB

jb said:

check the health of your ssd w/ seagate's diagnostic tool

https://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/

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Says drive status is good, with 100% of lifetime left

I’m going to try sanitizing the drive to see if maybe there was some corrupt data hiding somewhere

yeah no luck with that

Tyrone said:

RAW might be hardcoded into the SSD but honestly? you should let someone check it for you, like a computer repair store (unless they're closed)

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I’ve managed to format it from RAW into an NTFS drive before. It just seems to go back to that. Which I imagine it displays as RAW because it corrupts, and windows says “fuck I can’t read this”

Tyrone said:

might be a long shot but check if the cables aren't scuffed or if they are connected correctly

if all else fails, leave it in rice

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Definitely hasn’t been exposed to water. It was still sealed in plastic. Cables are all fine. Power cable is brand new from the PSU, SATA cable has been swapped and is also pretty new

Tyrone said:

give him a moment. @Cartoonjunkies do you still have all original files in your previous storage device? (HDD/SSD)? might want to keep that for now and see if reinstalling windows fixes it, if my post didn't work

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jb said:

ok unless you want to suffer through 100 years of troubleshooting just try reinstalling windows

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Ok may have actually fixed without reinstalling. I’ve managed to format it into NTFS again. Apparently the drive got into a “frozen” state when I tried to sanitize it. I’m going to try and use the drive again. Hopefully it doesn’t corrupt.

Tyrone said:

Certified Tech Support Guy (TM)

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Yeah I’ll be honest, I really don’t know what the fuck I did either. It just kinda started working.