I've installed Linux on my SSD, but now I'm having trouble formatting it. I've tried to format it using both Windows and Linux, but nothing seems to work. I can access the drive, and I know it's using the ext4 file system. Is there anything else I can do to check if the SSD is functioning properly or to reformat it?
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First off, you can't format a drive that's currently in use, so make sure you're not running anything from that SSD when you try to format it. Instead, you could try using a live USB with Linux to access the SSD and perform the formatting from there. That way, you're not booting from the SSD itself, which should let you format it without any issues.
Make sure you remove any partitions on that SSD first. Once that's done, try creating a new partition and then formatting it. That usually resolves most formatting issues.
It sounds like you're missing some critical details. What steps have you already tried? It would help if you could share any error messages you're encountering or provide screenshots of the process. This way, we can give more targeted advice!
Thanks for the tip! I’ll try to get some screenshots together and share what error messages I've seen.