Trying to format old SSD and Flash drive used on SD

[abailey2112]

So I bought a 1tb OLED and almost immediately installed a 2tb SSD. I picked up a "Dockcase" off amazon and I'm trying to use the old 1tb as an external on my gaming PC for music and movies. I know I need to format the original SSD but I cant get windows to even recognize it.

I can use the drive utility in desktop mode on the SD but I can only view the drive and cannot format as I don't have the option given to me.

Lastly I have the same issue on a 128gb flash drive I used as a disk image for installing Steam OS back on my SD after playing with parts of linux I shouldn't have been.

what can I use, or is there a process I can do to actually get these as workable drives again?

[MartyWF]

SD Desktop mode (?) might be able to fix it... Reformat it or wipe everything on them with out reformatting them

[Mahjik]

In Windows Disk Management, you don't see the SSD connected to the PC? You can't just format it. You have to delete all partitions, create a new one, and then you should have the "format" option.

[deaddoof]

You can create a new partition table and destroy all your old data. You can create a new 1 TB partition for you stuff.

Microsoft never cared about Linux file system. They will not implement support of the box

[abailey2112]

Originally posted by Mahjik:

In Windows Disk Management, you don't see the SSD connected to the PC? You can't just format it. You have to delete all partitions, create a new one, and then you should have the "format" option.

I can see a 127mb partition on the 1tb and 131mb partition on the 128gb one. I cant delete or create anything outside of that 130mb partition on either.