Has your NVMe drive become corrupted?
Has your NVMe drive become corrupted?
I received a T700 Pro for my new system, but I’m connecting it through an external NVMe enclosure via USB-C to an older PC for cloning. After initializing the drive and starting a quick format in disk management, it kept formatting for hours. I tried stopping the process and faced numerous issues—can’t delete the drive or partition, can’t see it in This PC, and encountered errors like “I/O error.” I attempted to wipe and repair using DiskPart, but problems persisted with I/O errors and semaphore timeouts. The drive was replaced under warranty when I brought it back. With a fresh drive, I cleaned it and ran a quick format via DiskPart this time. It finished in under a minute and worked properly. I then used Macrium Reflect to clone my existing drive, but noticed the new drive was set up as MBR instead of GPT. I stopped the cloning process, which caused more trouble—semaphore timeouts kept appearing when I tried to clean the drive with DiskPart. In disk management, the drive appears as “Disk 2,” but I can’t delete it. Under that volume, another “Disk 2” shows up, both labeled 2 TB (the actual size), though the second one isn’t initialized. Disk management let me initialize and start a quick format again. It’s been running the format for over an hour, and in diskpart it only shows 1024KB free space—possibly partition 1, which I can’t delete. I’m hesitant to try canceling the format again. Is there a way to wipe this drive and set it up fresh? I won’t attempt cloning my old drive anymore.
The drive was finally finished formatting, but it was saved as RAW. I wasn’t able to give it a letter name, yet diskpart now displays 2TB free space. After cleaning with diskpart, disk management listed 'Disk 2' three times, and the third instance wasn’t initialized. Using diskpart, I ran a clean operation which initialized the disk and revealed 2TB of unallocated area. I also executed another 'quick ntfs format' through diskpart, which has been active for about two hours. Disk management still marks it as a RAW file system, so I’m hoping the conversion is just taking some time. Diskpart consistently reports 0% complete until it instantly reaches 100%, making it hard to track progress.
You should wait until the 3-hour mark before attempting to cancel.
I stopped after five hours. I removed the drive and put it into another USB slot. When I refreshed disk management, the two fake drives remained visible, but clearing them with disk management restored them. Now I have a standard drive again. The convert command didn’t work in cmd, though diskpart successfully cleaned it, recreated the partition, did a quick NTFS format, and reassigned a letter so everything functions properly.