Boot Camp Assistant removing partition stalled?

I had created a FAT partition for Windows on my MBP when first setting up this new machine. I am trying to use Boot Camp Assistant now to remove the partition and it says "Partitioning Disk" with the barber pole going (though no progress shown).
It's been about two hours now and it's very hard to tell if anything is really happening. Both the Mac OS and Windows partitions are still mounted on the desktop, and the Windows partition still has all its files and folders available to browse through and copy. I can even copy files to and from the Windows drive.
So I have to imagine that it's safe to kill this Boot Camp Assistant process?

So I have to imagine that it's safe to kill this Boot Camp Assistant process?
I hope that you have a backup for the HD. Killing the process could make the HD unreadable. It is an extensive process to recover the HD involving use of another Mac.

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