Interesting read, indeed. What about external HDD drives? I have one of 1 TB and wanted to format it. It is not new, I have used it for several years now but it was never fulled.
I just wanted to format it to install Wii games in it. Do you still recommend a full format rather than a quick one in this particular case? Thank you in advance! I always recommend it. The choices go all the way down to 16 KB. Would choosing 16 KB vs.
In other words, when storing files to the drive in the future, will everything take longer if I use the smaller size for formatting? What is the best compromise? Thanks very much. It was on exFat for so long because I was using in on both my Mac and Windows devices. But unfortunately, I lost some of the valuable family photos and stuff due to the bad data integrity on exFat Single journal file systems are evil and decided to turn it into an NTFS drive.
PS- please consider changing the theme of the site. Hard to read the texts and irritate the eyes. Been using it for almost a year now and its alright. You are commenting using your WordPress. Another reason that makes format taking a long time is that your hard drive has a bad sector.
You can solve the hard drive taking forever to format with four useful tips. Learn carefully from the do-it-yourself ways of troubleshooting hard drive that takes too long to format in the Windows operating system on a computer or laptop, with the help of EaseUS Partition Master.
This free partition manager does well in managing hard disk partitions by resizing, deleting, formatting, creating, and many other features that wait for you to explore. Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Click the "Execute Operation" button in the top-left corner to review the changes, then click "Apply" to start formatting the partition on your hard drive.
If using a Windows alternative method still fails to shorten the formatting time, don't be upset, continue using the EaseUS Partition Master, let's try the other workaround. Many users stuck in the same situation solved the problem by deleting the available partitions on the hard disk and creating new ones.
Make sure that you've backed up the important data on the selected partition because this manner will compeletely remove data. Click " Execute xx Operation " on the top menu and then click " Apply " to save the change. Now the partition or partitions should become unallocated space , to use it normally to store data, just create a new partition and give a proper file system on it with the EaseUS software. On the main window, right-click on the unallocated space on your hard drive or external storage device and select "Create".
Set the partition size, partition label, drive letter, file system, etc. Click the "Execute Operation" button at the top corner and keep all changes by clicking "Apply". If the problem is with an external USB hard drive, perhaps trying to plug it out from your computer, use a proper USB cable for connection would help get rid of the formatting trouble. Good luck. If there is a bad sector on your hard drive, your format process could take a long time.
To figure out if there is a bad sector, you can run EaseUS partition software again. Let's see how it works:. The operation will be immediately performed and all bad sectors will be marked as red.
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Thread starter sonofpern Start date Dec 1, Forums Hardware Storage. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Status Not open for further replies. Previous Next Sort by votes. Jun 5, 53 0 1, 2. I didn't do anything else like checking for error as the drive seemed to be blank.
I opened Task Manager beforehand to watch disk usage. Was this a mistake? Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide. Mar 16, , 9, , 22, I don't even see how to stop the p[rocess, let alone do so safely. How should I proceed here? Jogibearson Prominent. Dec 28, 56 7 3. Does the HDD have a partition? Could be that windows tries to delete stuff when there is nothing. Edit: Resulting in a constant loop; explaining your extremely long waiting time.
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