How to force an active format to stop?

[Timstertimster]

I opened diskpart as admin and did a format fs=ntfs

Unfortunately my espresso-induced trigger twitch caused me to hit enter before I could finish typing "quick"

I don't care about any data on the disk, I just don't wanna sit and wait for hours. I also don't want to reboot. How do I force the darn thing to quit?

It's a USB stick.

 

[rgd1101]

control-z? control-c?

 

[Timstertimster]

control-z? control-c?

That just quits the diskpart application, but the process sticks around. Must be somehow protected.

 

[rgd1101]

use something like "process explorer" to stop the process.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

 

[Timstertimster]

use something like "process explorer" to stop the process.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Did that already, and stopped the entire diskpart process tree. Still formatting the disk, as I can tell in disk manager.

 

[rgd1101]

is there still a process using a lot of table i/o? might try that one. Or you probably have to wait for it to finish. usb stick shouldn't take too long.

 

[Timstertimster]

is there still a process using a lot of table i/o? might try that one. Or you probably have to wait for it to finish. usb stick shouldn't take too long.

I have the patience of a gnat.

 

[popaz]

Only in case if you are talking about a USB with ONE partition, go to diskpart, and clean the disk. This will force interrupt the running command, and gives you a clean drive.

I opened diskpart as admin and did a format fs=ntfs

Unfortunately my espresso-induced trigger twitch caused me to hit enter before I could finish typing "quick"

I don't care about any data on the disk, I just don't wanna sit and wait for hours. I also don't want to reboot. How do I force the darn thing to quit?

It's a USB stick.