Diskpart can't delete partition

My boot drive stopped booting with a registry issue, and now I cannot wipe the drive from a fresh windows image (on disk 1). I have tried to wipe the drive in many ways, and none of them work. I was able to read the data enough to get my data off, but I now have a "working drive" that I cannot touch. Is there a better way to wipe the drive, or is it dead and of the need for replacement? (The SSD is under warranty. I would just rather not deal with that)

This is what I get from diskpart:

I get the same issue for all partitions

    DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online         2794 GB      0 B        *
  Disk 1    Online          111 GB  1024 KB        *
* Disk 2    Online          238 GB      0 B        *

DISKPART> list part

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
* Partition 1    Recovery           450 MB  1024 KB
  Partition 2    System              99 MB   451 MB
  Partition 3    Reserved            16 MB   550 MB
  Partition 4    Primary            237 GB   566 MB

DISKPART> delete partition

Virtual Disk Service error:
Cannot delete a protected partition without the force protected parameter set.


DISKPART> delete partition override

DiskPart has encountered an error: Incorrect function.
See the System Event Log for more information.

DISKPART> delete disk

The disk you specified cannot be deleted.
Please select an empty missing disk to delete.

DISKPART> delete disk override

The disk you specified cannot be deleted.
Please select an empty missing disk to delete.

EDIT: I tried GParted from a Debian boot drive. I tried deleting twice, once it errored, the second time said it was successful, then reloaded and nothing changed. Then I tried to reformat everything to NTFS, and this failed and when I canceled the format the drive stopped showing up. Now the drive does not show up in diskpart. I think it is time to contact the warranty.

SauceMan8

Posted 2019-10-12T03:59:57.923

Reputation: 11

Have you tried specifying each partition number for deletion? – Sith Siri – 2019-10-12T04:17:20.287

I just tried. It brings up help/ says arguments are not valid. – SauceMan8 – 2019-10-12T04:27:34.957

This, unfortunately, did not work. I will put details at the bottom of the question – SauceMan8 – 2019-10-12T20:04:00.383

Before you go the warranty route, I would try backing up the data than performing an ATA Secure Erase to nuke everything on it using hdparm. You can initiate that from within GParted by running a command in Terminal. If nothing else, it would at least be interesting to see if that could remove the problematic partition. https://techgage.com/article/securely-erasing-your-ssd-with-linux-a-how-to/

– Mr Ethernet – 2019-10-12T22:08:04.407

Diskpart can't delete partition

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