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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
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