Someone please help! Can’t access/format SSD

[celo48]

I suggest that your next step would be to try to erase the OCZ device. Would you be prepared to do that? (with a backup of anything important). If you don't need a backup, and the drive is only visible from your Yosemite installer, try the erase from there. If the drive is failing (and I suspect that it is failing) then the erase may not even finish. Make sure you are erasing the device, not the partition. (The Linux install probably borked the boot blocks, I've seen that happen before) There might be some disk repair utility that (maybe) could fix that without a reformat, but it will be less stressful to (probably) find out that the drive has simply gone south (and not to a good place). The erase will probably fail, too.
And, it's time to move on from that OCZ. You can find that size (240 GB) SATA SSDs for less than $40

That’s my last resort. It doesn’t have too critical data but that’s what I assume. It is not my only computer so I will try little more and then just erase it. I read dd would be (also mentioned above) command for copying to an external USB drivw but I couldn’t figure out the exact command to start the copying. Will have to read more on that.

 

[Fishrrman]

Is this a 2010 UNIBODY MacBook Pro that we're talking about?
Does it take a standard 2.5" SATA drive (HDD or SSD)?

In that case...
Take the drive that's inside now OUT.
TRY ANOTHER DRIVE.

You can access the old drive by putting it into a $9 enclosure like this:

SABRENT 2.5 Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool Free External Hard Drive Enclosure [Optimized for SSD, Support UASP SATA III] Black (EC-UASP)

SABRENT 2.5 Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool Free External Hard Drive Enclosure [Optimized for SSD, Support UASP SATA III] Black (EC-UASP)

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I would stop messing around with Linux or Windows or any other OS and get a copy of the MAC OS installed and running.

 

[celo48]

I did it! I was able to copy everything from the OCZ to my other external drive. It took around 14 hrs to do so! However, SOME jpegs, pdfs won’t open. Now, looking for an app that can fix those😁