Hi, New to the site, hoping for help with my Formatting issue...

I have an old 256gb SSD drive out of my old Dell Laptop that Decided to die on me... Cant get it to power up... SO in my wisdom i thought i would salvage what i could from it and sell it on ebay... Sold all the parts that were working, screen, Ram, CPU and even the plastics, battery etc... and thought why not use the SSD as a nice external drive... Here goes my problem...

The Drive was encrypted, But for the life of me i can not remember the software that was used to do this... Silly i know, but all worked great so it wasnt a problem till the damn thing died...

When i try to format using HDGuru i get the following errors...
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11/03/2014 13:09:07 HDD Low Level Format Tool 4.40; http://hddguru.com
11/03/2014 13:09:07 Low level format: [2] Seagate USB 3.0 Cable SA16 [256.06 GB] (500118188 512-byte sectors)
11/03/2014 13:09:07 Device capacity: 500,118,188 sectors
11/03/2014 13:09:07 Locking device...
11/03/2014 13:09:07 Formatting...
11/03/2014 13:09:49 Format Error occurred at offset 0: 121 - Device not ready (Timeout)
11/03/2014 13:10:31 Format Error occurred at offset 65,536: 121 - Device not ready (Timeout)
11/03/2014 13:11:13 Format Error occurred at offset 131,072: 121 - Device not ready (Timeout)
11/03/2014 13:11:55 Format Error occurred at offset 196,608: 121 - Device not ready (Timeout)
11/03/2014 13:12:37 Format Error occurred at offset 262,144: 121 - Device not ready (Timeout)
11/03/2014 13:13:19 Format Error occurred at offset 327,680: 121 - Device not ready (Timeout)
11/03/2014 13:14:01 Format Error occurred at offset 393,216: 121 - Device not ready (Timeout)
11/03/2014 13:14:38 Format Error occurred at offset 458,752: 1117 - Device I/O error
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Could anyone out there help me get this back up and running, My data is of no importance as it was all backed up daily and secure anyway so only lost the last few hours work...

Any help would be great

Thank you


I forgot to add that this drive is a
PN: MZ5PA256hMDR-010D7
Model MZ-5PA2560/0D7

This HDD Low Level Format - kill SSD
need to use the native software:

http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owner ... -5PA256/US

Hi,
the best option is secure erase by samsung magician or partition magic, or hdderase and many others programs.
secure erase is the best option for ssd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udxNL6sCuDQ