Formatting a volume to XFS using DD11 running under windows 7

The basic questions here are:
1. can I use DD11 running under windows 7 to format an external usb3 connected HDD to XFS?
2. if that works, can I then use DD11 on the same PC to do a disk check on the XFS formatted usb3 drive? (noted that the info on this function in DD11 says that DD11 just manages the windows disk check program)

The background to the questions is:
I have a desktop and a small connected LAN, on which I have a network attached store (1Tb, formatted to XFS) which in turn has an externally connected usb3 drive (1Tb, FAT32). Both are mapped drives to the desktop. I regularly copy streams of 4.7Gb backup files generated by True Image Home 2012 to the NAS store. I use the usb3 connected drive to store copied multimedia files. Normally, that is individual or a batch of files each not more than 50Mb, and generally a lot less. The batch however can easily exceed 3Gb in total. For example, 400 jpg images or 200 mpg clips from a holiday. Lately I have begun copying single edited movie files, up to and exceeding 1.2Gb. As the individual files get larger, the discovery time before copying starts increases, and at 1.2Gb explorer presents an error message basically saying the device has disconnected from the network. The error is repeatable, regardless of source file type or location. Given the usb3disk format this should not be happening, but it is. However, the device hasn't disconnected and other explorer functions like read, open with and execute from it work as advertised. Explorer has the patches issued by MS.

See attached image of the error message. The affected drive architecture is a LH navigation panel background to the error message box.

That usb3 drive is fairly new (8 months) and as a result of this error has passed the disk checks via DD11, and the manufacturers diagnostic tools when it was removed and connected to a PC (each one a 3.5hour test cycle).

Since the initial error and tests were done, repeat copies of small files or 1.4Gb batches of files worked fine, but the single large file copy/paste just bombs out.

The NAS supplier can't indicate a specific cause, but did suggest formatting the usb drive to XFS, and supplied a link to a disk management program which would enable formatting the drive to XFS when running under windows. Why get another one since I already have DD11? and thus the questions above.

Davidk