How Do You Fix “File System Formatter Failed” Error In Mac OS X?
Disk Utility is a tool in Mac OS X operating system, which performs hard drive related operations such as hard drive mounting, erasing, verifying and repairing it, enabling or disabling file system journalling, and more. However, in some versions of Mac OS X, the Disk Utility isn’t found to work properly. Particularly in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, when you try to delete or format a hard drive volume, it may show you unexpected behavior. This behavior can sometimes cause data loss and create Mac Recovery requirements. In a practical scenario, you my come across below error message when you attempt to remove or format a Mac OS X Leopard hard drive volume: “File system formatter failed” The above error message generally occurs when you try to change the file system of a particular Mac OS X hard drive volume. The major causes of the above issue may include any of the following: The issue may be due to incompatibility of the Leopard’s Disk Utility with partitions scheme, which is used by Mac OS
