Thanks for responding, folks. I am, clearly, not a superuser 😵💫
My 1TB SSD (sorry, 2tb) came formatted exFAT and won’t format as NTFS.
It’s external using a usb data&power cable. Apparently, it’s MBR. It isn’t branded – just “Portable SSD MOBILE STORAGE”. Bought through Amazon.
(I’m ignoring the 4tb ssd from the same seller for now. It, too won’t reformat as NTFS)
The computer is 64 bit. Intel(R) Core(tm)2 duo cpu E8-400@3.00GHz.
I tried to format as NTFS using Disk Manager (DM) in Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1.
DM says the ssd is 1953.50gb ex-fat Healthy (Activate, Primary Partition) – also, simple basic ex-FAT.
When asked to format as NTFS it said there were bad sectors, so I opted to repair them.
Then I tried again to format as NTFS.
After 40 minutes DM reported “formatting (1%)”. After 1 hour, still 1%
I cancelled the format and tried formatting as ex-FAT. It took 15 minutes.
I then copied 15.9gb of files to the ssd – it took 1hr 40m and the “size on disk” for the ssd was 20.8gb. (The same files copied to a 1tb external hdd in 9m 45s and was the same “size on disk” as the original.)
All my non-SSD normal hard drivs format to NTFS.
I don’t know what other details to give you. Hope these are enough.
