pcie nvme drive is set readonly/write protected. i've been using the drive six months to a year and now i can't even format the drive. no changes have been made in the past 3 months (Shy windows 10 updates)

[ericc]

disk partition shows as:

Current Read-only State : Yes

Read-only : No

Boot Disk : No

Pagefile Disk : No

Hibernation File Disk : No

Crashdump Disk : No

Clustered Disk : No

admin supposedly has read/write according to windows (so running something as admin; i still get write protection can't save files to the disk)

i've tried setting permissions; and using diskpart to clear the read only flag. Then I tried copying the files off to another drive and formatting (Couldn't get the files to copy.)

Then I tried formatting (can't- disk is write protected.)

not sure what to try next. any suggestions?

[idata]

willr,

Could you please let us know what Intel® SSD you have installed?Are using this drive to boot or storage?Best regards,Aleki

[ericc]

NVMe INTEL SSDPEDMW40

Disk ID: 8CD6D1D4

Type : NVMe

Status : Online

Path : 0

Target : 0

LUN ID : 0

Location Path : PCIROOT(0)# PCI(0302)# PCI(0000)# NVME(P00T00L00)

Just storage luckily or I wouldn't be here to tell the tale.

[idata]

willr,

In this particular case, please try thehttps://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/23931/Intel-SSD-Data-Center-Tool Intel® SSD Data Center Tool file name: DataCenterTool_3_0_0_Windows.zip

For your convenience, here is the user guide. It contains information on how to secure erase.

Let us know if this helped you.

Best regards,

Aleki

[ericc]

C:\isdct>isdct show -intelssd

No results

C:\isdct>isdct load -intelssd

WARNING! You have selected to update the drives firmware!

Proceed with the update? (Y|N): y

Updating firmware...

Error: No device selected.

C:\isdct>isdct show -nvmelog smarthealthinfo

Error: No device selected.

C:\isdct>isdct show -nvmelog

Error: No device selected.

If you want something more specific i think your gonna have to ask for it. not in my life have i seen a more obtuse tool and i'm a bsd user...