Question Is there any way to securely erase or remove all bad sectors off a GN512 M.2 SSD ?

[stuart53]

Is there any way to securely erase or remove all bad sectors off a GN512 M.2 SSD? Or where to find the right firmware because its not on Gudgatech. What's really messed up is according to smarthdd . com /database/GN512/V1027A0/ I have the wrong firmware. If not for looking it up I wouldnt have known better. Thank you in advance, and best of luck to any others going thru same thing.

 

[rgd1101]

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[rgd1101]

what the issue with the ssd?
you can't remove bad sectors.
check the ssd health?

 

[hotaru.hino]

What do you mean you have the wrong firmware? This sounds more like you have a different firmware version, not a different firmware entirely. If you had the wrong firmware, the SSD wouldn't really work at all.

 

[stuart53]

what the issue with the ssd?
you can't remove bad sectors.
check the ssd health?

I ran DiskGenius it fixed over 1800 sectors, having it erase all the sectors now since there was so many bad sectors. The real issue is I can't initialize it, so wont partition to reinstall Windows 11, the laptop is really new only like a few months old now.

I'm hoping after erasing the sectors that it will finally initialize and partition.

I've done secure erase more than once with other software but noticed that its taking longer with DiskGenius so maybe thats a good thing hopefully.

Here are the specs from it off amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BG4SNFSD/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[stuart53]

What do you mean you have the wrong firmware? This sounds more like you have a different firmware version, not a different firmware entirely. If you had the wrong firmware, the SSD wouldn't really work at all.

Least thats good news, and come to think of it youre right, because if the firmware was bad then why did Windows 11 run just perfect before.

 

[stuart53]

heres a good laugh for ya too, lol running same said laptop with windows 11 to go to fix it lmao

 

[stuart53]

reminds me of back in the day..my brother tells me youll never fix that pc..it was my moms old windows 98 pc...boot floppy and burned 98 iso to the rescue

 

[stuart53]

32 hrs left to erase 512 GB SSD, is that average or just based on the program you use?

 

[stuart53]

what the issue with the ssd?
you can't remove bad sectors.
check the ssd health?

sdd health says ok on Disk Genius and just about any program ive tried says the same, yeah cant remove bad sectors, but you can erase em cross your fingers and hope and pray that you can inialtize and partition again lol..at this point i find humor does me better instead of letting it get the best of me. ^_^

 

[rgd1101]

32 hrs left to erase 512 GB SSD, is that average or just based on the program you use?

not suppose to run those on a ssd. it might kill the drive

 

[MWink64]

32 hrs left to erase 512 GB SSD, is that average or just based on the program you use?

I can't fathom any world in which it takes 32 hours to perform a single pass of any operation on a 512GB SSD. A Secure Erase should take well under an hour, even assuming it's not a Self-Encrypting Drive (which would only take seconds). Even something that writes every sector shouldn't take nearly that long. I recently tested a bottom barrel (Silicon Power A55) 512GB DRAM-less, QLC SSD and estimated that it would take <3 hours to fill the drive (assuming no rest periods to allow the pSLC cache to recover). 32 hours is more than enough to scan a 20TB hard drive.

Can you post a screenshot of CrystalDiskInfo?

 

[stuart53]

really weird getting disk not found on crystaldiskinfo, and yet DiskGenius says the opposite, theres 477 gb available, should hopefully partition. The size seems about right a 512gb drive, i know it always runs a lil lower than actually size.

 

[MWink64]

Only time I've seen CrystalDiskInfo do that was on a machine with an eMMC. I'm not familiar with DiskGenius. Does it show SMART attributes? Maybe try GSmartControl. It can sometimes extract even more info, such as GPL data (when supported).

 

[stuart53]

This SSD is dead for sure but girlfriend ended up getting a better laptop and wasnt bad for a refurbished hp, i5 instead of i3 and better onboard grahipcs so least it wasnt a total loss, Plus it was cheaper than the other one as well. ty to all for the input here was a learning experience to say the least.

 

[fzabkar]

An ATA Security Erase Unit command should execute in about 2 minutes for any SSD, even if it isn't a SED. Those tools which take several hours to do this are actually transmitting data over the SATA interface. In contrast, an ATA Security Erase Unit command executes completely within the drive, without any data transfer over SATA. The controller simply erases each NAND block without further intervention by the host.

After the process completes, open the physical drive with DMDE (a free disc editor). Select the Advanced button and drag the vertical scrollbar from LBA 0 all the way to the end of the drive. You should see nothing but zeros.

https://dmde.com/