Windows 10: SSD is being read, but can't be formatted or initialized

For some reason, a new SSD of mine just... Isn't being formatted. It's apparently initialized as a Recovery Partition, but I didn't do that, and I wasn't given a choice. It's also wrong about it's memory - it says it has 533mbs when it should have 526gbs. Either it's a bad read because of my motherboard or a Win10 error. I need help anyways. I currently have, like I said, Win10 on build 18362.1016

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Cannot Format HD


Need to initialize it as GPT disk type with HD > 2TB:
From Admin command prompt:

1. diskpart
2. list disk =====> Take a note of disk # for the 4TB HD
3. select disk # ====> From step 2
4. clean
5. exit

Open Disk Management and initialize the disk as GPT, create simple then format.

 

wed can reformatting ssd

Hello Allen,

It seems that you're SSD is in a read-only state. Read-only is the same as write-protected.

As an initial troubleshooting, I suggest that you follow the steps provided by Angela Pun which helped a lot of community members in this
thread.
Make sure to select the SSD drive.

If the issue still persists, please follow these steps on how to format a write-protected SSD using Command Prompt.

1. Press the Windows key + R. A run dialog box will open.
   
2. Type CMD then press Enter.
3. Type diskpart
4. Type list volume
5. Type select volume # ( # is the number of USB HDD you've plugged in)
6. Type attributes disk clear
   read-only
7. Type clean

If you have additional questions, or if the issue persists after the troubleshooting steps above, please let me know by replying to this thread. This way, I'll get notified and respond back to you as soon as I can.

 

How To Format A Write Protected Flash Memory ?

¿You already tried this one?...

Run CMD


1. diskpart
2. list disk

Then in the 3º step, put the correct number of disk in the list for the usb flash (if it's listed in disk 3, then you'll have to write select disk 3).

2. select disk #
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

with that commands you will format the flash drive in fat32, if you have a large drive you can select also "format fs=ntfs" in step 7.

good luck!