Format a 2TB USB Drive in Windows 10

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MtHamiltonMark

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I am trying to use a 2Tb exFAT USB drive in a Windows 10 system (Dell i7). It "formats" to a single 2Tb partition and seems to work fine until too many files are loaded on it, then it refuses to load any more (the dialog continues, but the directory is empty). Trying to partition the USB drive, Windows says drives larger than 500Mb are not recommended, and when I try partitioning it into more than one drive, Windows only formats the first partition and warns that only the first partition is recognized for USB drives. Is there a way I can reliably access the full 2Tb capacity of the drive?
 
fat32 did not work, nor did nfts. Note that I have tried with different USB ports, different computers, and different 2Tb USB drives (2 different brands). The last one shows up as a 1.90 TB drive in explorer and writes files, but at a certain point, file copy keeps going, but nothing is written.
 
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