OT - Bad SSD?

Got something to discuss that's not about Blackmagic products? Then check out the Off-Topic forum!
  • Author
  • Message
Offline

Greg Huson

  • Posts: 210
  • Joined: Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:34 pm
  • Location: Culver City, CA

OT - Bad SSD?

PostFri Jul 07, 2017 1:44 am

This is a little off topic, but maybe someone here has a tip - I accidently pulled an SSD out of an external drive holder (aka 'toaster') and now it won't reformat. In Mac OSx Disk Utility it fails after a long time trying unmount; can't seem to partition it using terminal commands, either. I tried formatting in Win7 on a USB 2, but it failed at the very end - now it mounts in OSx Disk Utility showing a completely 'full' partition, but still won't re-partition the drive. (fails during 'unmount.'

Disk warrior says the hardware is fine, but obviously doesn't do anything with the directory, since there doesn't seem to be one.

This is one of the faithful sandisk drives out of my 1st-gen cameras- which I no longer have, so I can't use them to format.

Anyone have an idea how to resurrect this drive? I obviously don't care about the media that was on it - just want to get it back into service.

thanks in advance.
GH
----------------------------------------------------
Greg Huson
Secret Headquarters, Inc
Post Production / Production
Santa Monica, CA
323 677 2092
www.SecretHQ.com
greg (at) SecretHQ.com
Offline
User avatar

Peter J. DeCrescenzo

  • Posts: 2409
  • Joined: Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:53 am
  • Location: Portland, Oregon USA

Re: OT - Bad SSD?

PostFri Jul 07, 2017 7:25 am

I recently had a similar situation where a drive wouldn't format under Mac Sierra or Windows 10.

I connected it to an old Mac running (whatever preceded Sierra -- Snow Leopard?) and its Disk Utility was able to format the drive.

After that the drive could be formatted under Sierra on my newer Mac & under Win 10 on my PC. Weird. YMMV.

-
Offline
User avatar

rick.lang

  • Posts: 17175
  • Joined: Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:41 pm
  • Location: Victoria BC Canada

Re: OT - Bad SSD?

PostFri Jul 07, 2017 10:35 pm

El Capitan came right before Sierra, but Snow Leopard may well be on your old machine.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Rick Lang
Offline

Greg Huson

  • Posts: 210
  • Joined: Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:34 pm
  • Location: Culver City, CA

Re: OT - Bad SSD?

PostTue Jul 11, 2017 1:20 am

We have one older system (10.9.5?) with the earlier disk utility - no luck there either.

Even tried 'clean' (or was it 'clear?') in diskpart on a PC. I think the drive is screwed. BUT they have 10-year warranty. Now, if Sandisk will just answer my email...
GH
----------------------------------------------------
Greg Huson
Secret Headquarters, Inc
Post Production / Production
Santa Monica, CA
323 677 2092
www.SecretHQ.com
greg (at) SecretHQ.com
Offline

Thierry Bergeron

  • Posts: 72
  • Joined: Thu Aug 11, 2016 4:58 am

Re: OT - Bad SSD?

PostSat Jul 15, 2017 7:38 pm

Whenever I have a problem formatting a HDD or SSD I boot in recovery mode run Disk Utility and usually it works

Return to Off-Topic

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: leondavisjr and 25 guests