I am having trouble trying to format / clone image to a M4 SSD for my MAcBook Pro (model A1211)

I hope someone is out there today.  I recently bought a Crucial M4 SSD (512 Gb)  When I tried to clode my Lion HD using SuperDuper I got an error message half way through the process (destination no longer available; try again.)  When I tried again, SuperDuper would not recognize the SSD.  I then downloaded and tried to use Carbon Copy.  It also took me about half way through and failed.  After that failure I could no longer "see" the SSD (i.e. the icon disapeared.)  I tried to reboot from the SSD using the Option key.  The system sees the SSD, but will not boot from it, which is expected since it did not complete cloning.  I thought that if I used Disk Doctor I could just start over.  It won't let me do that either.  When I try to erase the image it won't let me.  When I look at properties for the SSD it shows on 1 Gb of capacity.
Does anyone know of a way to "reset" the M4 SSD to a null state so that I can try again, or should I just return it as defective?

It sounds like it would be best to erase it completely and start the cloning over again. You can completely erase the disk by going to your Utilities folder and then to your Disk Utilities Application.
Choose the partition (the field that is under the hard drive) of your SSD in the side bar and then go to the "Erase" option. MAKE SURE that it is your external SSD and not the hard drive you are trying to clone. Choose the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) option under format and then click erase. This will clear the disk and allow you to start over. I would recommend using Carbon Copy Cloner from the start and using it through. You might also want to consider that you got a bad hard drive. This is sometimes the case even with new hard drives.
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