Fix "File System Formatter Failed" Error in Mac OS X
In Mac OS X operating system there is a Disk Utility Tool that is specialized to perform hard drive related operation like hard drive mounting, verifying, erasing and repairing it if any problem occurs. Sometimes due to some reason the Disk utility fails to work properly mainly in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. This especially happens when user tries to delete or format the hard drive volume and after that starts showing unexpected behavior and due to this reason data loss situation occurs. Generally user come across the below given error message while attempting to remove or format hard drive of Mac OS X Leopard.
“File system formatter failed”This error message generally occurs due to change in the file system of particular Mac operating hard drive volume. Main reason for above error message may be because of; the Disk Utility fails to perform such operation in Partition Table of Mac operating system if it gets damaged.
At this situation it becomes important to resolve File system formatter failed error message. For this user must repartition the Mac Hard disk doing this will resolve the problem that is related to the hard drive problem. But on the other hand entire stored data gets deleted. So before repartitioning the hard drive it is important to keep complete backup of important data and then check the integrity of backup. Steps to repartition Mac hard drive is discussed below:
- At first open the Disk Utility and then select the particular hard drive and click on “Partition” tab.
- Then select the number of partition from drop-down list
- And select the partition type by using “Options” menu
- At last select required partition file size and then click on Partition.
After this restore the deleted data from available backup in case the backup fails then user can try third party Mac Hard Drive Recovery Software. Recovery becomes easy with this software as it has powerful algorithm that performs advanced scanning of Mac hard drive and then restores entire deleted data in a safe and secure location. User does not need to have technical experience as the software has self descriptive and simple user interface. It works well with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.4 Tiger, 10.3.9 Panther, and 10.5 Leopard. The software recovers the lost data from HFS, HFSX, HFS+, HFS Wrapper, and FAT file system volumes.
