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The idea of formatting the drive ext4 even though there are windows drivers for Linux based formats is not what I need, the drive is close to full, I have another identical drive that is almost full, difficult as if I want to retain my data, the idea of Linux was to be an alternative to Windows? am I right? the idea of not being able to use hardware on both platforms makes it less so, at least for me!
I will follow the instructions at the end of that page you left a link for and will report the outcome.
sync; umount /dev/sdb1 >/dev/null 2>&1; mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sdb1
sudo su
umount /dev/sdb1 >/dev/null 2>&1; sync; mkfs.ext4 -t ext4 /dev/sdb1