[SOLVED] Format an external SSD which has W10 installed on it?

[ORIGINAL-BAKI]

Hi All,

I've spent the past few hours trying to format an old SSD that I own, which used to have a W10 installed on it. Here are the key details:

Background on the SSD:

• The SSD came with my Inspiron 7577 laptop
• I cloned the SSD and replaced it with a newer one
• The SSD brand is SK Hynix

What's happening:

• The SSD cannot be initialized
• Samsung Magician recognises the HDD but says no volumes have been found and list the drive as 0MB

Please help me?

 

[CountMike]

Hi All,

I've spent the past few hours trying to format an old SSD that I own, which used to have a W10 installed on it. Here are the key details:

Background on the SSD:

• The SSD came with my Inspiron 7577 laptop
• I cloned the SSD and replaced it with a newer one
• The SSD brand is SK Hynix

What's happening:

• The SSD cannot be initialized
• Samsung Magician recognises the HDD but says no volumes have been found and list the drive as 0MB

Please help me?

Use program like Mini tool partition wizard https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html to delete all the partitions on that SSD, make a new one and format it to NTFS.

 

[ORIGINAL-BAKI]

Use program like Mini tool partition wizard https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html to delete all the partitions on that SSD, make a new one and format it to NTFS.

I just tried the partition wizard tool and I'm unable to do anything because it believes the drive is a 0MB drive. I took a screenshot,

https://ibb.co/7vSnrsG

 

[CountMike]

I just tried the partition wizard tool and I'm unable to do anything because it believes the drive is a 0MB drive. I took a screenshot,

https://ibb.co/7vSnrsG

Must be a bad drive.