Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7

[DavidMorgan]

Hello everyone, first time poster here and in need of some help.

first off i have the board in subject, but i am unable to boot up parted magic to erase my ssd drives,the version of parted magic i have is 2015_05_04. i have tried many different ways to put on the usb and does work on other pc, have also tried to use different usb ports and turning off things in my bios, but still unable to get parted magic to work it sticks. the picture will be attached.

im running F6 bios with all latest drivers for the board and hard ware i use.

spec:

Corsair AX860i Full Modular Power Supply
Corsair Individually Sleeved PSU DC Cable Kit,Type 3
Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7, Motherboard
Intel Core i7 6700K Skylake
Corsair 16GB DDR4 Vengeance LPX 3200MHz
MSI GTX 970 OC Edition Twin Frozr V 4GB
Gigabyte GTX 470 Dedicated PhysX
Corsair H100i GTX - Push/Pull Corsair SP120 High Performance Edition
Plextor M6e Ultra Slim SSD 128GB M.2 PCI Express SSD (Windows 7 Home 64bit / Windows 10 Home 64bit) (Dual Boot)
Samsung 512GB SM951 M.2
Samsung 256GB 840 Pro
Samsung 128GB 840 Pro

i am trying to erase Plextor M6e Ultra Slim SSD 128GB M.2 PCI Express SSD.

hope some one will be able to help with this problem i have, thankyou

[Leppermessiah]

I think that having Windows 8/10 mode enabled in the BIOS can prevent booting from a USB drive.

[shadowsports]

Do you have a DVD installed.  Ubuntu Live CD has G_parted.  I used it a while back to Secure Erase a few Corsair Force III's. One had some bad blocks.  Worked like a charm.  They probably have a bootable USB by now as well.

[DavidMorgan]

I think that having Windows 8/10 mode enabled in the BIOS can prevent booting from a USB drive.

I have tried all three options and none work, even disabled secure boot, fast boot making sure the usb is at first boot.
i know the usb with parted magic works as tried on another pc.

Do you have a DVD installed.  Ubuntu Live CD has G_parted.  I used it a while back to Secure Erase a few Corsair Force III's. One had some bad blocks.  Worked like a charm.  They probably have a bootable USB by now as well.

not using g_parted i am using parted magic there are different software.

http://gparted.org/

https://partedmagic.com/

thank you for your replies

[shadowsports]

Yes, I understand    I was just offering a possible alternative.  hdparm is part of Linux and free.  Parted-magic looks great.  For $9, a good app for anyone's toolkit.