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Unable to format a 512GB USB thumb drive on 32-bit Win OS
The USB thumb drive will not format for me, I have tried the traditional avenues of right-clicking on the drive and selecting format, but it fails within seconds. I have tried using diskpart but when I type list disk I find disk 1 but it shows No Media. So I rebooted my machine and now when I do list disk I now see a status of online with a size of 500GB, but diskpart is still showing 0B free. I am trying a Clean all command to see where it takes me. I finally got a response from the Clean All command, Diskpart has encountered an error: The semaphore timeout period expired. See the System Event Log for more information. Any ideas of what I can try to get around this error would be greatly appreciated.