External HDD Formatting Issue

lloydy90

Newbie
Hi All

I have a 1tb external thoshiba hdd. I cannot format to ntfs only exfat.

I thought the disk may have had some bad sectors. Ran a chkdsk/f but was still going after 24 hours so had to stop it.

I then tried a clean all in diskpart but again it was taking far too long. 12+ hours and still no progress.

I then tried dban to completely erase the drive but it cannot see it.

So i have had to format in extfat which takes about 10 sec. When i choose ntfs it times out and says drive is locked?

Any ideas please?
 
Hi All

I have a 1tb external thoshiba hdd. I cannot format to ntfs only exfat.

I thought the disk may have had some bad sectors. Ran a chkdsk/f but was still going after 24 hours so had to stop it.

I then tried a clean all in diskpart but again it was taking far too long. 12+ hours and still no progress.

I then tried dban to completely erase the drive but it cannot see it.

So i have had to format in extfat which takes about 10 sec. When i choose ntfs it times out and says drive is locked?

Any ideas please?

Try getting a copy of Acronis or maybe try HP format utility which is free.
 
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