Formatting SSD says completed but files all there

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I have an Apacer (AS350) SSD drive from a laptop that had Windows 11 and I have tried everything to format this drive
and each time it says the format completed successfully but all the data is still there.
I even put it in the original laptop, plugged in a bootable Win 10 flashdrive and it went to the point of selecting the drive to install on and then it just gave a generic error and wouldn't let me install.
If I put it in an enclosure I can see all the files and can copy files to and from it but still cant format.
Could it the drive is faulty or is it something else?
 
Format it via CMD then take it from there … i don’t know much but this is what I do if I need to format something
 
Have you tried deleting the volume in the Disk Management utility?
 
Tech_ said:
I have an Apacer (AS350) SSD drive from a laptop that had Windows 11 and I have tried everything to format this drive
and each time it says the format completed successfully but all the data is still there.
I even put it in the original laptop, plugged in a bootable Win 10 flashdrive and it went to the point of selecting the drive to install on and then it just gave a generic error and wouldn't let me install.
If I put it in an enclosure I can see all the files and can copy files to and from it but still cant format.
Could it the drive is faulty or is it something else?
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use diskpart, however be careful, if you don't know what you are doing you could end up wiping a disk you didn't want to.

step 1 -> Open command line as Administrator
step 2 -> diskpart
step 3 -> list disk (check to see what number is your disk that you want to format)
step 4 -> select disk x (from the above)
step 5 -> clean (this will remove everything and clean the drive)
step 6 -> create partition primary
step 7 -> format fs=NTFS QUICK (or format via Windows GUI)
 
Not exactly what you asked for but when I manually deleted every folder from my HDD I just renamed every folder to windows.old and use the disk cleanup tool/app. It will recognize every folder as previous versions of windows and just override the admin privilege's security thing. Its actually funny how you can bypass the windows security like that.
 
Gozzy said:
use diskpart, however be careful, if you don't know what you are doing you could end up wiping a disk you didn't want to.

step 1 -> Open command line as Administrator
step 2 -> diskpart
step 3 -> list disk (check to see what number is your disk that you want to format)
step 4 -> select disk x (from the above)
step 5 -> clean (this will remove everything and clean the drive)
step 6 -> create partition primary
step 7 -> format fs=NTFS QUICK (or format via Windows GUI)
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Yes this is the way … I did mine like that and most drives or hard drives even my ssd
 
Zuner said:
Open CMD
Diskpart
list disk
select disk x (Where x is your disk number)
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
format fs=ntfs quick
assign
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Tried this and I see this error and when I looked at the logs I see another error
Looks like hardware failure...
 

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The drive has failed and become read-only. You can format it and write data, but the actual data on the drive will not change.
 
P924 said:
The drive has failed and become read-only. You can format it and write data, but the actual data on the drive will not change.
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Sounds the most likely thing so should I just send it back as it is still under warranty.
 
@Tech_ You could always boot a live Linux OS and use Gparted or terminal and see if that works.
 
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