But sometimes, quite a lot of people got stuck in a formatting process for an incredibly long time, for example, over 24 hours, they badly need to interrupt the format midway. The cost of time on formatting a storage drive depends on how much the storage is used, usually from seconds to hours. Microsoft Windows allows for hard disk formatting in many ways, and users can format the internal drive as well as some external USB flash drives in File Explorer, Windows Disk Management program, and Command Prompt. 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".
#Fs wizard pro Offline#
Run Command Prompt as Administrator > Type diskpart > list disk > select disk X > offline disk.
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