Windows 10: I have all my drives which are 6 tb or greater formatted as gpt drives

When the may update installed all my drives on 2 different computers got the winload efi errorI got a brand new hard drive and installed my original windows on that new gpt drive. It worked fine updated it with the latest windows version from create tool. It crashed windows with the same winkoad.efi error. The only way I could get it to work was delete all the partitions and add a new one then using the crested latest version. Of window, and had to delete that partition in the install and then create a new partition and it installed fine with the got drive. My problem is there is no way to fix

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Windows Was Unable to Format This Drive - new 6 TB HGST drive

What method were you using to attempt to format it? You should open a command prompt (admin) or powershell (admin) and the commands would be:

diskpart
list disk
select disk # <-replace # with the actual number for the 6 TB drive
clean <- this will erase everything on the disk selected above, make sure you selected the correct one!
convert gpt
create part pri
format fs=ntfs
assign
exit
exit

NOTE: a full format of a 6 TB drive may take several (3) days to complete.

 

Windows Was Unable to Format This Drive - new 6 TB HGST drive

What does the "assign" command do?

 

Windows Was Unable to Format This Drive - new 6 TB HGST drive

I started this process today, after first changing the Power Plan to Always On, and then going into advanced settings for disk drive inactivity setting. I am actually using a USB 3 docking cradle that supports either size drive. It has two docks, so it can do a copy operation on its own. Manufacturer is Orico, and it has been reliable.

Even so, I left my system and then came back about 90 minnutes later. The drive was no longer spinning and the DISKPART format command still showed "0 percent completed.

I did not have this problem when I used the Windows format command. I should note that using this same hardware I have formatted a number of HGST 4 TB drives without incident.

I know someone suggested Linux, but I'd like to work with Windows.