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one of my HDD doesn't let my format.

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Pawelk198604

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I have on 300 GB (297 GB actually ) it's not my prime drive it almost literally empty except one folder i try to format it but i get message that ""System Windows was unable to complete formatting"

I tried to delete that folder manually but i cannot :(

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How to delete a partition in Windows.

Seeing as you want to format it anyway you may as well completely remake the file allocation table, this will usually get around any corruption in the old FAT and remove that last folder you can't delete.

But if your drive has an actual hardware problem you'll find you won't be able format it, but then it shouldn't be trusted with data anyway.

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