Question NVME unable to delete/format/do any changes on the SSD

[IknowGainz]

I have a M.2 NVME SSD and I can't make any changes to the drive. i tried deleting the partitions on the drive, creating new partitions with no success. I used fdisk /dev/sdd to delete the partitions. After rebooting I am unable to access the drive anymore. The drive is no longer present after listing the disks. However, I can see the drive with the command lsblk

We can see that the partitions of the sdd drive have not been deleted and now to add to my problems i cant access the drive anymore.
Using blkid doesn't return anything about the sdd drive either:

i wanted to check the drive's health because I am starting to think that it is dead, but i don't know how to do so since i cant even access the drive with fdisk or smartctl. I hope it is not the case since I've had this drive for less than a year and its a pretty good : nvme 970 evoplus


I have let some time pass and i can now see the nvme with fdisk but the partitions have not been deleted and i can also see the contents of the drive, i cant create or delete files or directories, i get the message the file system is read-only

looking at the permissions i can see that i have read and write privileges :

 

[IknowGainz]

Small precision, the nvme is connected to the computer by using a nvme to usb dongle, i don't think it changes anything to the problem but i think its worth mentioning.

 

[dwd999]

If use an app like Gparted, what does that show?

 

[IknowGainz]

i can see the partitions, i tried deleting the partitions and i get the following error : input/output error during write on /dev/sdd

 

[IknowGainz]

here are some more details on the errors reported by gparted

 

[IknowGainz]

Tried this command today : sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde bs=4M status=progress. I am trying to write 0s to the entire nvme in hopes it erases the partitions, however the write speed is super low 6 Mb/s on average, I only write 17GB on 1Kgb and the nvme is piping hot to the touch, since it's connected through a dongle, i have no way of getting the temperature readings of the drive. I added a heat sink but i don't think this is enough, I think the command wont run to completion the drive will shutdown due to overheating.

 

[Bob.B]

Small precision, the nvme is connected to the computer by using a nvme to usb dongle, i don't think it changes anything to the problem but i think its worth mentioning.

Can you connect this disk internal just for test purpose?

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Maybe hook the drive up in the system as the only data done and fire up a copy of Dariks boot and nuke and have it try to write zeros to the drive. If that doesn’t do it you may be looking at a newer drive.

 

[IknowGainz]

Can you connect this disk internal just for test purpose?

I will try!! what do you want me to do when its connected, because i already know i cant access it, its was connected to the computer when the problem appeared.

 

[IknowGainz]

Maybe hook the drive up in the system as the only data done and fire up a copy of Dariks boot and nuke and have it try to write zeros to the drive. If that doesn’t do it you may be looking at a newer drive.

okay i will try and let you know!

 

[Bob.B]

I will try!! what do you want me to do when its connected, because i already know i cant access it, its was connected to the computer when the problem appeared.

When connected internal and all test fail look through the bios for a secure erase function if you use this it would be best to only have the problem disk connected.