Using SSD as flash drive

Question

Hey everyone, sorry if this was asked but I have searched everywhere for a solution and nothing.

I have a 128GB SSD (Toshiba thnsnj128g8ny) and an SSK external enclosure. I want to use the SSD as a flash drive but I cannot figure out how. When I put the SSD inside the SSK and plug it into my laptop, the laptop never recognizes it as a drive.

Going to Disk Management shows the following:

The disk I want to use as a flash drive shows up as unknown so I want to initialize it, but doing that gives me an "failed due to a fatal device hardware error".

I have tried cleaning the drive with cmd > diskpart > select disk 1 > clean
and this "works" but if I put the SSD into the laptop and boot from it, I still have my default OS and everything works like normal.

I am really stuck on here and don't know what else to do.

It also cannot be enclosure because I tried using a different enclosure and I was getting the same error.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Might try another pc, also look for tools here.
https://www.toshiba-storage.com/downloads/

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Answer 2

Please try other drives in the HD enclosure and report the findings.

Indicate what is seen:

a) in the BIOS
b) in file explorer
c) in disk management
d) in device manager

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