How long to format 64gb flash drive

Check for hidden partitions or use something like Rufus to wipe it first. Big Green Man This person is a verified professional. General Hardware expert. Have you tried cleaning it with diskpart? Rod-IT wrote: Check for hidden partitions or use something like Rufus to wipe it first Wouldn't diskmgmt. Electric Sheep This person is a verified professional.

Goalieman Nov 27, at UTC. Dnewton76 This person is a verified professional. Any time, that's what we're here for. May 21, 1 0 18, 0. This issue is entitled to a bit more discussion. That software put four partitions on my flash drive and basically made it totally unusable for anything but functioning as an inexpensive RAID device.

My manager yanked me off of virtual server testing and onto other stuff, so I wanted to get my 64GB flash drive back. My Apple Mac Air could not "erase" it their way of saying format. I put it into several windows systems, and the windows format utility always failed. I tried both quick and the full low-level reformat. I did some googling, and discovered a low-level system called "diskpart" that runs very low-level formatting commands on any drive, including a USB Flash.

I started running it last night; it's been running nearly 20 hours, and shows "45 percent completed" at present. It will tack on a percent about every thirty minutes. Did someone say "slow"? The flash drive isn't warm, like a regular low-level format normally makes a drive. And it's just taking forever. Perhaps the USB interface slows it all down? Something isn't right. Knowledge gap here. You must log in or register to reply here. Storage 10 Oct 22, S Question Any way to recover a disk that had an aborted formatting done on it?

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