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I would be inclined to let it run overnight. It will likely be done in the morning. You really should not use FAT32 on larger drives. It has a 4GB file limit and no journal to aid file recovery. Better to use NTFS. Plan is to hook up the drive to my wireless router and use it as a shared drive across multiple OS's. Anyway, it turns out that there seems to be a loose contact somewhere along the USB-Cable, and this is what caused the format to "grind to a halt".
I discovered it when I accidentally moved the USB-Cable ever so slightly, and heard the "bleep" sound on Windows 10 indicating a new drive had been discovered. I now did a quickformat with fat32format which seems to have done the trick. Rather than using the standard Windows formatting tool, switch to the command line.
Then enter the following command at the prompt, while "X" is the drive letter for the external device you with to format:. Alternatively, if you don't want to wait for hours, ran into an error with the command above, or generally want to avoid third-party tools, you can also try the quick format command:.
You should note that the quick format will only delete the file table. It will not erase or overwrite the files currently written to the drive. But if you do want to wipe a hard drive completely, we've shown you how. Encounter any problems? Find out how to fix the "Windows was unable to complete the format" error. If you're moving drives between multiple operating systems, you'll want a widely supported format. Depending on the platforms you're using, however, you should also consider exFAT because it's supported by Windows, Linux, and newer versions of macOS and has virtually no limit on individual file sizes.
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