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I just started formating a 3.2 tera hard disk.

So if tomorrow morning the formatting is not done, Can I stop it, eg removing this ext hard disk by removing its power.

Will I be able to re formatting it later again?
 
You could - but its not going to be usable until you format it properly...
 
Y...TF...would you format ntfs to fat 32 on a 3.2 tera???

But you can stop(cancel) the format, then change it back to ntfs then format again.
 
Always though the maximum size of a Fat32 partition would be 2TB. Also why did you just not Quick Format it?
 
sal12344 said:
Always though the maximum size of a Fat32 partition would be 2TB. Also why did you just not Quick Format it?
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All depends on your sector size. The larger the drive, the bigger the sector size the fewer number of files you can store. A 16TB FAT32 would use a 4K sector size compared to 0.5KB for a 2TB.

But your still limited to the 4GB file size limit regardless of your sector size.
 
Ok, I need help.

The disk could not be formatted, because it is to big, says the message on the screen in cmd.

What do I have do to now.
Reason for fat32 is the tv must be able to read it.

In the normal windows format their is only exFat , I suppose that is not Fat32.
 
Check admin tools, computer management and see if the disk is listed there. Delete logical drive then format it if i remember correctly.
 
Robertvv said:
Ok, I need help.

The disk could not be formatted, because it is to big, says the message on the screen in cmd.

What do I have do to now.
Reason for fat32 is the tv must be able to read it.

In the normal windows format their is only exFat , I suppose that is not Fat32.
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Just partition the drive and format in fat32 on each partition.
 
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