Disk Drive completely grayed out

[Tyler McCartney]

In disk management I have a 8GB SSD that is completely grey to the right of it. I want to be able to fix and use this drive.

Here is what it looks like - http://prntscr.com/c3n2tf

How do I fix this?

 

[Shaun o]

I doubt you can Tyler.

When disk manager reads a drive connected to the system via a Sata port, or data cable.
It should at least read the configuration information of the drive.

It should display the total capacity, the drive letter assignment.
and the type of formatting the drive has.

If cannot display that information or read it from the drive it cannot format the drive.
Basically the drive is dead.

When a flash based drive does what you are seeing there is a physical fault with the drive controller on the SSD drive.
Or the flash memory has been used too much in respect to read and write operations that is is worn out and can no longer store data on the device be it a SSD drive or a Usb based flash device.

 

[Tyler McCartney]

I doubt you can Tyler.

When disk manager reads a drive connected to the system via a Sata port, or data cable.
It should at least read the configuration information of the drive.

It should display the total capacity, the drive letter assignment.
and the type of formatting the drive has.

If cannot display that information or read it from the drive it cannot format the drive.
Basically the drive is dead.

When a flash based drive does what you are seeing there is a physical fault with the drive controller on the SSD drive.
Or the flash memory has been used too much in respect to read and write operations that is is worn out and can no longer store data on the device be it a SSD drive or a Usb based flash device.

The drive isn't dead I can tell you that...

Some information can still be read from the drive by going to properties

http://prntscr.com/c5tjn6
http://prntscr.com/c5tjqe
http://prntscr.com/c5tjwu

 

[Shaun o]

Any drive that does not show it`s total capacity, especially a SSD based drive with flash nand on it.
Is dead.

Where is it supposed to store data if the capacity of the drive is not reported.
A quick test try to format the drive.

If it fails, or gives you and error message the Flash chips on the SSD are toast Tyler.

 

[Tyler McCartney]

Any drive that does not show it`s total capacity, especially a SSD based drive with flash nand on it.
Is dead.

Where is it supposed to store data if the capacity of the drive is not reported.
A quick test try to format the drive.

If it fails, or gives you and error message the Flash chips on the SSD are toast Tyler.

The drive isn't dead, it is that simple. I wish people would try to give me a solution instead of insisting on something I know to be completely false.