So my dad had a UMPC from about 2007 and it has an SSD inside it, at the time the touchscreen driver corrupted the whole system and the SSD ws rendered un-usable so we replaced it. To this day I still have that SSD because I'm under the impression it's not totally dead.

 

It cannot be formatted, but it does show up as a drive in any PC I put it in, just as an unknown volume. Currently its in a pc that Im using a live ISO (Parted Magic) to try and revive it BUT no luck, cant partition BUT it allows me to wipe it using most external methods, not the secure internal wipe. So it obviously recognizes it enough to wipe it but not enough to format?  Is it actually dead? 

It's an Adata 128GB

thanks in advance