Internal drive rendered inaccessible

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I’ve gone with the full UEFI firmware, and am trying to flash arch Linux onto it. When I try to go through the installation process, it says that the internal drive is full. I have since booted into pop os to try installing that, with the same error. Finally, I’ve booted into manjaro with xfce, and can see the drive has a couple different directories, such as dev_image, encrypted, home, reboot_vault, unencrypted, and var_overlay. It also has two other files, encrypted.block, and encrypted.key. the home directory has 2 empty folders, chronos and user, and 1 un-openable directory named root.

I also tried writing to the drive manually, which failed, both with and without the battery plugged in to disable write protect. I even tried updating the firmware, which seemed to work, though didn’t fix the problem. Please help!

Edit: the board is a LASER14

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Use a disk manager like GParted and delete all the partitions.

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DistroWatch.com: Dr.Parted Live distro is only 750mb and has the tools you need from a bootable usb, though I think many distros make gparted available during an install(endevourOS for example)

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Given some of the folders are labeled firmware, won’t that delete the firmware, bricking the device?

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No, the firmware you’re concerned about isn’t stored on the disk.

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Thanks, that worked!