k1114 :
You can still download windows 7 from their site but it requires you to input a key. If you got a new os, then why don't you have a key? What is happening when you try to format and how are you even trying to format?
Yeah the installer is there now, it was gone for a while, even spoke to their support about it a while ago too.
I never got a new OS as in a bought one, I just used the installer from their site and installed it on my PC but never activated it with a key, so it's illegitimate.
I right click on the drive and press "format", go through the options and press "OK", then a window pops up that says it can't format. That's it.
But don't worry about it anymore, I realized a while after I made this post that my SSD is actually still in use, I just never realized it. My windows is booted from the SSD but it's located on the HDD, or something like that.
Thanks for your help so far though, I'm going to install W10 and use the installer to clear the disks, see if that works.