Erase mba ssd from Gparted, what about EFI?

Hello everybody and excuse my mistakes in english (not my native language). My macbook air (a1304, late 2008) became completely corrupted. Apple reseller told me about a problem on the drive. That´s an ssd (samsung 128 gb original) and DiskWarrior and disk utikity couldn´t do anything about it. So I googled bout it and understood erasing from Gparted (linux) would be a possible way. But, it has to be done plugging the drive hot; bootin from live cd with it unplugged and pluggin it before erasing. That´s risky, I know, but my first question is what to do with the 200mb efi partition. I cannot clone it with carbon copy, superduper, or time machine. So my question is; is it necesseary to clone it or would it be after generated in a common OSX installation? thanks a lot

JackSeoul wrote:
sabatica wrote:
This is a known issue that seemed to randomly affect a small number of the 2011 models.
Its your Cable going to your internal HD that needs to be replaced in MOST instances in the 2011 model. Funnily I have just had to replace a number of cables suffering from this very same issue recently. The last one repaired was 2 hours ago.
Hope this helps. Enjoy. 2011 wasn't a good year.(
Hi, I'm seeing intermittent failure of the Samsung SSD in my 11" 2011 Macbook air. The logic board was replaced under warranty (2 years) but not the SSD (1 year, expired) and the problem persists.
I'm considering replacing the SSD with an OWC drive but I don't want to do that if the problem is with some cabling somewhere. However your description of the problem doesn't really match the 2011 MBA teardown photos on the internet - there's no cabling related to the SSD, which slots directly into the logic board.
Is the common problem you're talking about applicable to the macbook air?
Thanks
Not sure if cabling is the issue, hope its not.  After my suspected SSD failure (which I don't think it was) my graphics failed (the graphics is integrated into the logic board and required its replacement - thank goodness for AppleCare).  So I'm not sure if what I was experiencing was the pre-failure of the graphics.  I'm back up and running, have reinstalled the SSD and we'll see if there's some connection to it and the graphics failure (doubtful).  There so much of a performance increase from the SSD it's hard not to keep it in the computer; even a hybrid SSD was noticibly slower. 
Figures I'd get a 2011 with a cable issue... 
Tom

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