You can format your external hard disk for Mac and Window. To format hard disk that usable for Mac and Windows, you need to select “MS DOS File System” for formating your hard disk.
To format your hard disk for Mac and Windows on Mac follow the steps below:-
Go to Finder -> Application -> Utilities
Double click for Disk Utility
Select the external Hard Disk you wish to format at the left column
Click on the Erase tab
At the “Volume Format” select “MS-DOS File System”
If you confirm to format your hard disk for mac and windows, Click on “Erase” button.
Pop up window will ask to verify the erase procedure. Click the erase button again in the window to start the erase process.
* All the data in the external hard disk will be permanently removed after this steps.
Once the erase process finish, your external hard disk may be able to use in Mac and Windows.
Showing posts with label Mac Problems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mac Problems. Show all posts
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Blue Screen Problems of a Mac & Recover Missing Files
Nowadays many of the people are using a Mac operating system as this operating system comes with the latest features and have the capability to perform the tasks quickly. These days many of the Mac users complaining about a big issue that while starting the Mac operating system, the screen turns blue and they fails to perform the task. When the system turns blue the data become inaccessible and sometimes the system gets automatically shut down and causes data loss. This is quite an irritable situation and the people are eager to find a solution that can fix this error and makes the file accessible.
This is not a system problem; in fact this problem occurs due to the availability of the corrupted and damaged files, corrupted start up items, incompatible applications and many more adverse actions. Now, a question comes in every one's mind that "how to overcome this problem?"
Appearance of blue screen in Mac OS makes the saved files inaccessible as well as damages it completely. In some cases there is also a good possibility of losing the files. So it is strictly suggested to remove this problem as soon as possible. You can get rid of this problem and performs a Mac undelete by following some manual steps which are as follows:-
Turn on the computer in safe mode and when the logo of Apple appears then kindly click on the restart button present on the menu bar.
If the startup fails to work after the occurrence of the login window, then remove all the unused and incompatible login items present on the system
Reinstall the Mac operating system and make use of Disk utility that can repair the startup disks and disk permissions.
And if the problem persists by following all the above mentioned steps then it is apparent that the problem becomes critical and for this you will have to use Mac undelete software. This is robust and influential tool that is very much proficient to remove "blue screen" problems of Mac operating system. And also have the capability to repairs and undeletes all the corrupted and lost files. This utility tool comes up with the elegant graphical user interface and supports almost all the versions of Mac operating system like Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, 10.3.9 Panther, 10.4 Tiger, and 10.6 Snow Leopard etc.
This is not a system problem; in fact this problem occurs due to the availability of the corrupted and damaged files, corrupted start up items, incompatible applications and many more adverse actions. Now, a question comes in every one's mind that "how to overcome this problem?"
Appearance of blue screen in Mac OS makes the saved files inaccessible as well as damages it completely. In some cases there is also a good possibility of losing the files. So it is strictly suggested to remove this problem as soon as possible. You can get rid of this problem and performs a Mac undelete by following some manual steps which are as follows:-
Turn on the computer in safe mode and when the logo of Apple appears then kindly click on the restart button present on the menu bar.
If the startup fails to work after the occurrence of the login window, then remove all the unused and incompatible login items present on the system
Reinstall the Mac operating system and make use of Disk utility that can repair the startup disks and disk permissions.
And if the problem persists by following all the above mentioned steps then it is apparent that the problem becomes critical and for this you will have to use Mac undelete software. This is robust and influential tool that is very much proficient to remove "blue screen" problems of Mac operating system. And also have the capability to repairs and undeletes all the corrupted and lost files. This utility tool comes up with the elegant graphical user interface and supports almost all the versions of Mac operating system like Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, 10.3.9 Panther, 10.4 Tiger, and 10.6 Snow Leopard etc.
Friday, December 23, 2011
Mac Diagnostics Test - A Simple Solution to a Big Problem
It is not an uncommon issue for people to face a hardware failure on their computer system. However unusual it may sound, Mac hardware can fail at any time. This failure can create big problems, and can make important data stored on a hard drive inaccessible to the user. Usually the hard drive failure results in the loss of data. A valid backup will help the person out of this awful situation by providing access to their most important data. If you ever face this situation, the problem can be solved with the best Mac diagnostics software to recover the hard drive or files that were lost.
A Mac OS X hard drive failure can be easily diagnosed and prevented by performing the Mac OS X diagnostics test on a hard drive that's showing aberrant behavior, such as if the Mac hardware stops responding while booting the system. The Mac OS X diagnostics test contains a set of hardware diagnostics that can test the Mac hardware and hard drive of the computer. The Mac system diagnostics test provides an excellent way to rule out a hardware issue when troubleshooting the Mac computer.
A Mac hardware test troubleshoots and helps solve many types of problems on your Mac. Plus it's bootable, so you can boot systems that won't boot off the damage or corrupted drive to run diagnostics on the troubled system, then decide the next course of action. Using the best Mac hard drive utility, you can create an emergency startup partition on the active system volume, called an eDrive, without ever having to boot from a physical DVD. You can also perform a SMART test on your internal ATA or SATA drives to detect changes in reliability, and repair corrupt or damaged HFS+ volumes, including those in newer solid-state devices, called SSD's.
Mac diagnostics software also provides flexibility to diagnose and fix other problems, and recover files and data during a hard drive recovery so users can get back to work quickly. Using volume cloning, exact duplicate backups of drives or volumes can be archived and later restored. The archives are called clones, and can be the complete volumes to restore from, or can be added to incrementally when files are changed or revised later. Mac diagnostics software also enables device management within a local area network (LAN), by monitoring the configuration or security of your LAN, and will display Bonjour supported devices and active services, plus help track devices no longer available to the monitored network.
Now you can easily run Mac diagnostics with a single click using the best Mac diagnostic software available, TechTool Pro for Mac, in so checking critical CPU, memory, video hardware, and more, to identify any aberrant behavior to mitigate problems and prevent costly repairs in the future.
A Mac OS X hard drive failure can be easily diagnosed and prevented by performing the Mac OS X diagnostics test on a hard drive that's showing aberrant behavior, such as if the Mac hardware stops responding while booting the system. The Mac OS X diagnostics test contains a set of hardware diagnostics that can test the Mac hardware and hard drive of the computer. The Mac system diagnostics test provides an excellent way to rule out a hardware issue when troubleshooting the Mac computer.
A Mac hardware test troubleshoots and helps solve many types of problems on your Mac. Plus it's bootable, so you can boot systems that won't boot off the damage or corrupted drive to run diagnostics on the troubled system, then decide the next course of action. Using the best Mac hard drive utility, you can create an emergency startup partition on the active system volume, called an eDrive, without ever having to boot from a physical DVD. You can also perform a SMART test on your internal ATA or SATA drives to detect changes in reliability, and repair corrupt or damaged HFS+ volumes, including those in newer solid-state devices, called SSD's.
Mac diagnostics software also provides flexibility to diagnose and fix other problems, and recover files and data during a hard drive recovery so users can get back to work quickly. Using volume cloning, exact duplicate backups of drives or volumes can be archived and later restored. The archives are called clones, and can be the complete volumes to restore from, or can be added to incrementally when files are changed or revised later. Mac diagnostics software also enables device management within a local area network (LAN), by monitoring the configuration or security of your LAN, and will display Bonjour supported devices and active services, plus help track devices no longer available to the monitored network.
Now you can easily run Mac diagnostics with a single click using the best Mac diagnostic software available, TechTool Pro for Mac, in so checking critical CPU, memory, video hardware, and more, to identify any aberrant behavior to mitigate problems and prevent costly repairs in the future.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Problems With Mac OS X 10.6
We’ve given it seven days, hoping that there would be a resolution. There hasn’t been. So now we’ll ask the question that’s been on our minds more or less since last Friday: what the hell is going on with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard? [Editor’s Note: A new article with possible Snow Leopard crash fixes / solutions is now available.]
Fifty or sixty percent of Snow Leopard users we’ve spoken with say that they’re having no problems with it. None. It’s a little faster, consumes less space, and adds those tiny but nice UI improvements you’ve probably read about already.
The other forty or fifty percent are in a situation like mine: multiple machines upgraded, all with serious, awful stability problems of some sort. Safari’s crashing. Photoshop’s crashing. Apps you didn’t even know could crash (like TextEdit) are crashing. They’re crashing when we save files, crashing randomly when we’re not saving files, and so on. iChat is putting out error messages about being unwilling to send text-only messages, seemingly at random. Some machines are hanging on restart; others boot up every time without a problem. The new feature we’re seeing more than any other is the updated crash reporter—something that hasn’t been as extensively reported upon as, say, changes to how the screen dims when you click and hold on an icon in the dock.
I realize that there is a temptation to ask how the Mac-focused media has failed in this situation. Merlin Mann, discussing problems exactly like the ones mentioned above, calls out the Mac crowd (warning: NSFW, funny language) for apparent fanboyism, saying: “I realize you’re having a big, beardy lemon party about all these homeopathically non-obvious new features, but come on. Don’t wag your finger at people like me for pointing out [something] that shipped empirically broken.” Yet this doesn’t seem like the standard case of media drooling just to get featured on Apple’s “Hot News” page. Of iLounge’s editors, most are having no problems whatsoever with Snow Leopard. And yet some of us are having such profound, awful problems that we can’t rely on the stability of our production work machines. The thing that’s crazy: people with problems and people without problems are using the same model Macs. So it’s not like Apple tested Snow Leopard on only some of its computers. There’s something else going on here.
Whatever the causes may be, the symptoms are becoming quantifiable. Adobe has posted a document noting some of the same problems with saving, and an increasing number of users have been registering complaints across multiple applications. As noted, however, the symptoms are not affecting everyone. One of our editors is using Adobe’s Photoshop CS4 and experiencing no problems with saving, but I’m using it on a seemingly identical machine and experiencing crashes virtually every third time I save a file. Another problem with uploading files using Safari—spread across multiple web sites, from Facebook on down—was repeatable in Firefox and Opera, as well. All of the programs crashed doing the same thing. That leads us to think that it’s not the programs, or at least the programs that are crashing; it’s Snow Leopard, not properly handling some plug-in, some accessory, or maybe something else.
Worth noting, as well: those of us with problems have been trying all the likely solutions—going through and checking for stray, naughty processes, plug-ins, and other things that might be causing instability. Nothing seems to work; I personally run extremely clean systems—no input managers, no other hacks—and there was almost nothing to remove, yet even after removing basically everything, the problems have persisted. There’s no Apple tool to help users diagnose what the problems might be, and apparently, whatever Snow Leopard installation process was supposed to quarantine incompatible files did not work properly to do so. This is, without question, the most problematic Mac OS install I have personally ever had, and the first where I’ve had to downgrade one of my machines to the prior OS just to get stability back. (On a wireless Time Machine connection, that only took 12 hours.) If I thought I could wipe the other machine completely clean—the Redmond solution, I call it—and have it work perfectly, I would, but at this point, I’ve heard too many stories of people having problems with perfectly new installations to go through all that effort for nothing.
Obviously, it’s not this way for everyone. A lot of people are running Snow Leopard without issues. I (and the other people with serious problems) would love to be among them, because other than the instabilities, the new system seems great. But a lot of us are wondering right now how Snow Leopard could have shipped with such serious instability problems—given that this is supposed to be a stability-focused release, compatible only with a far more limited number of total Mac models than ran Leopard—and why it seems that literally none of the people who received advance copies of Snow Leopard from Apple are reporting on these problems. Cat got their tongues? Or is something else going on?
Source- http://goo.gl/nKjSV
Fifty or sixty percent of Snow Leopard users we’ve spoken with say that they’re having no problems with it. None. It’s a little faster, consumes less space, and adds those tiny but nice UI improvements you’ve probably read about already.
The other forty or fifty percent are in a situation like mine: multiple machines upgraded, all with serious, awful stability problems of some sort. Safari’s crashing. Photoshop’s crashing. Apps you didn’t even know could crash (like TextEdit) are crashing. They’re crashing when we save files, crashing randomly when we’re not saving files, and so on. iChat is putting out error messages about being unwilling to send text-only messages, seemingly at random. Some machines are hanging on restart; others boot up every time without a problem. The new feature we’re seeing more than any other is the updated crash reporter—something that hasn’t been as extensively reported upon as, say, changes to how the screen dims when you click and hold on an icon in the dock.
I realize that there is a temptation to ask how the Mac-focused media has failed in this situation. Merlin Mann, discussing problems exactly like the ones mentioned above, calls out the Mac crowd (warning: NSFW, funny language) for apparent fanboyism, saying: “I realize you’re having a big, beardy lemon party about all these homeopathically non-obvious new features, but come on. Don’t wag your finger at people like me for pointing out [something] that shipped empirically broken.” Yet this doesn’t seem like the standard case of media drooling just to get featured on Apple’s “Hot News” page. Of iLounge’s editors, most are having no problems whatsoever with Snow Leopard. And yet some of us are having such profound, awful problems that we can’t rely on the stability of our production work machines. The thing that’s crazy: people with problems and people without problems are using the same model Macs. So it’s not like Apple tested Snow Leopard on only some of its computers. There’s something else going on here.
Whatever the causes may be, the symptoms are becoming quantifiable. Adobe has posted a document noting some of the same problems with saving, and an increasing number of users have been registering complaints across multiple applications. As noted, however, the symptoms are not affecting everyone. One of our editors is using Adobe’s Photoshop CS4 and experiencing no problems with saving, but I’m using it on a seemingly identical machine and experiencing crashes virtually every third time I save a file. Another problem with uploading files using Safari—spread across multiple web sites, from Facebook on down—was repeatable in Firefox and Opera, as well. All of the programs crashed doing the same thing. That leads us to think that it’s not the programs, or at least the programs that are crashing; it’s Snow Leopard, not properly handling some plug-in, some accessory, or maybe something else.
Worth noting, as well: those of us with problems have been trying all the likely solutions—going through and checking for stray, naughty processes, plug-ins, and other things that might be causing instability. Nothing seems to work; I personally run extremely clean systems—no input managers, no other hacks—and there was almost nothing to remove, yet even after removing basically everything, the problems have persisted. There’s no Apple tool to help users diagnose what the problems might be, and apparently, whatever Snow Leopard installation process was supposed to quarantine incompatible files did not work properly to do so. This is, without question, the most problematic Mac OS install I have personally ever had, and the first where I’ve had to downgrade one of my machines to the prior OS just to get stability back. (On a wireless Time Machine connection, that only took 12 hours.) If I thought I could wipe the other machine completely clean—the Redmond solution, I call it—and have it work perfectly, I would, but at this point, I’ve heard too many stories of people having problems with perfectly new installations to go through all that effort for nothing.
Obviously, it’s not this way for everyone. A lot of people are running Snow Leopard without issues. I (and the other people with serious problems) would love to be among them, because other than the instabilities, the new system seems great. But a lot of us are wondering right now how Snow Leopard could have shipped with such serious instability problems—given that this is supposed to be a stability-focused release, compatible only with a far more limited number of total Mac models than ran Leopard—and why it seems that literally none of the people who received advance copies of Snow Leopard from Apple are reporting on these problems. Cat got their tongues? Or is something else going on?
Source- http://goo.gl/nKjSV
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