Intel 320 SSD corrupted.. How to re-format /repair it?

[JTeo]

Hi,

I have a Intel 320 SSD (300GB). it was with Win 7 & PGP FDE.. It got corrupted beyond repair.. went to a few data-recovery services.. all said cannot retrieve data from disk.

I have given up hope in retrieving the data from disk..what I want is to format it and re-use the SSD. is it possible?

In windows.. it "see" the drive as not initialized.. any attempt to initialise it --> time-out error. (semaphore timeout period has expired)

Any tools to do the format?

I tried HDD LLF tool 4.3.. when it try to format the drive.. I get Format error occurred at offset XXXX: 121 - Device not ready (Timeout)

Regards.SSD

[Jose_H_Intel1]

You may try with the Intel® SSD Toolbox or with Diskpart (from CMD).

Otherwise you may contact your local Intel® support team.

Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18455 https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18455

Intel® Contact Support

http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/contactsupport http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/contactsupport