Formatting my 3.0 TB HDD was taking over 4 hours and was likely

Also how do I get rid of the windows 10 recovery partitions?

It will corrupt any data that you fill in that 90% should have let it finish

>>57808895
I'll just restart it then and go to bed

long format in wangblows only reads data space to find hardware errors, it does not overwrite anything with zeroes, therefore, you are fine

if you want to get rid of all partitions, use diskpart cil util and use command clean, just google it mmkay

>>57809469
k
>>57809493
mkay

Using EaseUS Partition Master

Wipe data: pending

Not doing shit...

>>57809655
open cmd
type diskpart
type list disks
type select disk _____
type clean
done

if you have to format
while still in diskpart with selected disk
type create partition primary
type format fs=NTFS quick
done