u/ridewontbelong

Hi guys,

I recently bought a used WD PC SN810 NVMe 512GB M.2 SSD, and I’ve been trying to format/initialize it with no success.

Windows detects the drive in Device Manager and Disk Management, but it does not show up as a usable drive in File Explorer. I’m not sure if there’s still any hope.

Some details:

MiniTool Partition Wizard shows it as “Bad Disk”
Disk Management gives “Incorrect Function” when trying to initialize it
CrystalDiskInfo detects it and shows it as healthy
GParted did not show the drive
sedutil on Windows says the disk is invalid/unsupported
WD Dashboard seems discontinued, and WD Kitfox says this drive is unsupported

DiskPart can see the SSD:

DISKPART&gt; detail disk

PC SN810 NVMe WDC 512GB
Disk ID: 00000000
Type   : NVMe
Status : Online
Path   : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1B00)#PCI(0000)#NVME(P00T00L00)
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only  : No
Boot Disk  : No
Pagefile Disk  : No
Hibernation File Disk  : No
Crashdump Disk  : No
Clustered Disk  : No

There are no volumes.

DiskPart can clean it:

DISKPART&gt; clean
DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.

But anything after that fails:

DISKPART&gt; create partition primary
DiskPart has encountered an error: Incorrect function.
See the System Event Log for more information.

DISKPART&gt; convert gpt
DiskPart has encountered an error: Incorrect function.
See the System Event Log for more information.

DISKPART&gt; convert mbr
DiskPart has encountered an error: Incorrect function.
See the System Event Log for more information.

DISKPART&gt; create partition primary size=100000
DiskPart has encountered an error: Incorrect function.
See the System Event Log for more information.

The SSD has a PSID printed on the label, so I’m wondering if this could be a locked/self-encrypting drive that needs a PSID revert.

Has anyone seen this behavior before with a Dell/OEM WD PC SN810? Is there any realistic way to recover/reuse it, or did I just waste my money?

Bought a blocked SSD?