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?
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?