Hi, I bought a super cheap SSD from aliexpress to try out (it will hold nothing of importance).

> fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 3.81 TiB, 4194304000000 bytes, 1024000000 sectors

Disk model: SSD

Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disklabel type: gpt

Disk identifier: 4C825673-8E4E-4809-B50C-7BBC6A83DF44

Device Start End Sectors Size Type

/dev/sda1 6 4095 4090 16M Microsoft reserved

/dev/sda2 4096 1023999993 1023995898 3.8T Microsoft basic data

I over-wrote the existing partitions with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdaX and used the wipefs command. I then attempted to remove the partitions with fdisk and cfdisk but get the error:

fdisk: cannot open /dev/sda2: Input/output error

Any ideas on how to remove these partitions or at least change the file system?