Windows 10: SSD is erased when I reboot my computer

I am running windows 10 and I have been using a SSD for about 3 months. About 1 month ago I did a trim on my SSD. The next day when I logged in to my computer the SSD was not found and i was prompted by Disk management to initialized the SSD which I did. After that every time i restarted my computer it had to be initialized again and all data and partitions were lost. So I did a RMA on the drive. Two days ago I was sent a new SSD same size but actually of better quality by the company. The problem persist it is doing the same thing. I have tried everything and do not know what to do to fix the problem. Could someone please if you have a answer help me out.


System Specs:


OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home

Version 10.0.19041 Build 19041

Other OS Description Not Available

OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation

System Name JASONSBEAST

System Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

System Model X570 AORUS ELITE WIFI

System Type x64-based PC

System SKU Default string

Processor AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor, 4242 Mhz, 12 Cores, 24 Logical Processors

BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. F21, 8/20/2020

SMBIOS Version 3.2

Embedded Controller Version 255.255

BIOS Mode UEFI

BaseBoard Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

BaseBoard Product X570 AORUS ELITE WIFI

BaseBoard Version x.x

Platform Role Desktop

Secure Boot State Off

PCR7 Configuration Binding Not Possible

Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS

System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32

Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2

Locale United States

Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.19041.488"

User Name JASONSBEAST\jason

Time Zone Central Standard Time

Installed Physical Memory RAM 32.0 GB

Total Physical Memory 31.0 GB

Available Physical Memory 23.7 GB

Total Virtual Memory 35.5 GB

Available Virtual Memory 24.8 GB

Page File Space 4.50 GB

Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Kernel DMA Protection Off

Virtualization-based security Not enabled

Device Encryption Support Reasons for failed automatic device encryption: TPM is not usable, PCR7 binding is not supported, Hardware Security Test Interface failed and device is not Modern Standby, Un-allowed DMA capable bus/devices detected, TPM is not usable

Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes

Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes

Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware No

Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes

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First question is. I have an old OCZ Vertex 3 120GB that has been lying around forever and want to wipe it to factory settings and install Ubuntu on it (so I don't need to run Windows side by side on my current OS drive). I'm assuming the easiest way to do this is to do the following?

• Boot Ubuntu from USB installer
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• Open the Terminal and
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To secure erase an SSD you need to use the manufactures utility
https://support.ocz.com/customer/en...i-secure-erase-my-sata-ssd-using-ssd-utility-

Although installing Linux will erase the part it is installed to