Hard disk formatting is recognized as a good choice when it comes to fixing some generic hard drive issues, such as hard drive becomes very slow suddenly, cannot open hard drive as usual or bad sectors were developed on the drive.
But after I entered the command, this stage hangs there for already two hours, still, 12% completed! Can I just interrupt the format process and start it all over again? But it seems that Windows won't cancel the format in a safe way. "Hi, I have an issue with a WD Elements external hard drive and I wanted to format it on Windows using the Diskpart. Run EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard > Scan the formatted hard drive > Restore partially lost data. If you initiate the formatting in File Explorer, click the "Cancel" button to stop the formatting. Open Disk Management > Right-click the disk you are formatting > Select "Offline". Windows Explorer: Click to select the Perform a quick format check box.ĭisk Management (Diskmgmt.msc): Click to select the Perform a quick format check box.Run Command Prompt as Administrator > Type diskpart > list disk > select disk X > offline disk. You can use the quick format option for these four methods:ĭiskpart: Use the format command together with the quick parameter. You can use four methods to format a volume in Windows Vista and later versions. To avoid causing unnecessary on-demand-allocation, you must use the quick format option. In the on-demand scenario, zeros don't have to be written to the whole disk because the volume storage provider initializes the on-demand-allocated data. Problems may occur because the new format behavior prematurely triggers allocation of the backing space.
The new format behavior may cause problems for the on-demand allocation modes that a volume storage provider, such as a Storage Area Network (SAN), supports. In Windows XP and earlier versions of Windows, the format command doesn't write zeros to the whole disk when a full format is performed. By default in Windows Vista and later versions, the format command writes zeros to the whole disk when a full format is performed. The behavior of the format command changed in Windows Vista and later Windows versions. This article discusses a change in the behavior of the format command in Windows Vista and later Windows versions.Īpplies to: Windows Server 2012 R2, Window 10 – all editions Original KB number: 941961 Introduction
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