Trouble deleting a partition - help please!

Hello, my AOA 110 decided not to boot up today. I have tried to recover, reinstall Ubuntu NBR and Kuki but to no avail. I am unable to delete or re format the partition. Also tried with Gparted but this fails part way through. Anyone have any ideas? I can boot to Kuki from live USB but can't install that way either.

 

To delete any existing partiions on the SSD, you can try the following. Note - back up any data you want to keep before doing this. Once you delete a partition, data recovery is likely to be impossible.
1. Boot a live distro off a USB thumb drive
2. Open a terminal window
3. sudo fdisk /dev/sda
4. p (to print the current partition table)
5. d 1 (delete the first partition)
6. If there was more than one partition on /dev/sda, then repeat step 5
until all partitions are deleted.
You're now ready to create a new partition (or several, if that's your thing). You should be able to do this with fdisk, parted, gparted, or the partitioner associated with your live distro.

HTH

 

Many thanks - as it turned out the SSD was dead. Have now replaced with a 32 gig one from super talent - much quicker and more memory so not too bad overall.