Performing a full format on a NVMe SSD

[Executioner]

I was working on a laptop that had a small 128 GB ssd. I decided to use a larger 512 GB SSD from Timetec. It's a SATA 600 is what Crystal Disk Info is showing. Purchased from Amazon earlier this year.

Anyway, during the install the laptop would simply hang. Nothing would work except holding down the power button and rebooting. I did a scf /scannow command and it found corrupt files. Rebooted and had the same issue. So I pulled the Timetec out and mounted it on a USB adapter to check it on another PC. I use MScanner-HD Tester (https://macrorit.com/disk-surface-test/ ... -test.html).

During the surface test, at the 31% spot, it simply stopped scanning. I killed it and decided to perform a full format of the drive. Is this a bad idea, and will the drive be okay after the full format to use again. It was a brand new drive. Never had this happen before on a new drive.

[Executioner]

Well that did not work. When I ran the scanner after the full format, it stopped at the same point, so this one goes into the recycling bin.

[FlyingPenguin]

You can try running Spinrite 6.1 on it on level 2 IF your mobo supports legacy BIOS support for NVMe drives (just boot it in Spinrite and see if it sees it), but honestly I'm not sure I'd trust the drive as an OS drive even if Spinrite fixes it.

[Executioner]

Yeah I was thinking about using SR, but like you mentioned, I would not trust it afterwards.