How to force an active format to stop?

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



 
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