Tag: Computers

Formatting Mac’s Volume is conceptually the same as deleting it. The major difference is that you will select a drive, not a volume, from the list of hard drives shown on your Mac Machine.

If you really want to format, then I would like to recommend that – formatting process will take a little longer time than the basic erase method applied in Mac machines.

Mac Disk Utility supports various capacities, all including at least one disks, volumes, or partitions.

Utilizing Disk Utility Mac to format a drive, paying little mind to the sort. It doesn’t make a difference if it’s an internal or external disk, or if it’s a hard drive or a SSD.

A matter of thing,

Before stepping into formatting process, make sure you have proper backup of data existing on that drive which you’ve decided to format. If you don’t own data backup, then do it now without any second thoughts.

If you’re all set, then let’s get started with the steps of formatting Mac hard disk,

Where to find Disk Utility?

Instead of digging deeper into your Mac system, open ‘Application’ folder and then you can see ‘Utilities’ folder. Now select ‘Disk Utility’ option (you can also get it in Finder).

Getting Started

Once if you find OS X Disk Utility, you can start formatting Mac hard drive by following below mentioned steps –

Launch Disk Utility – Once it is opened, from the left-hand pane, you can see a list of drives and volumes connected to your Mac, select the drive you wish to format. The selected drive’s information will be displayed.

Choose your format option – Mac’s Disk Utility will automatically choose OS X Extended (Journaled) option as the most common and default for the drive format, if you’d like to use something else, then click on the Formatting options to check its drop-down window. Other format options you will see are:

• OS X Extended (Journaled)
• OS X Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)
• OS X Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)
• OS X Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled, Encrypted)
• MS-DOS (FAT)
• ExFat

Piece of Info – For external drives on Mac, it almost always makes sense to format in ExFAT format option.

Name your drive – Once if you choose the drive to format, you will now need to give the disk a name. This can be anything you wish. Select ‘GUID Partition Table’ on the options window.

Choose Security option – This Options sheet will display multiple secure erase options, one is Fastest and other is Most Secure.

Fastest will erase the drive by removing the drive header information, but will leave the underlying files intact, although they will be in hidden mode. This means you or someone else could resurrect the files easily using result oriented Mac Data Recovery Software, which isn’t necessarily a good idea.

For a fresh install of OS X, we’d recommend you move the slider to the second option where it says “This option writes a single pass of zeros over the entire disk.” Most Secure option will overwrite the entire drive seven times at once.

Finally – Time to click on “Erase” button. Formatting a drive can take a while depending on the size and amount of data stored in it. Progress bar will show how the formatting of your Mac hard drive is going and how long it will take to complete.

Once the procedure is finished, you can do whatever you like with the Mac hard drive!!

You can control Windows 10 from being automatically restarting during its usage with no apparent reason; here you can get to know how to do it.

If you’re Windows 10 user and going through the situation where your system is restarting while working. Restarting of PC while working that too without any notifications.

It sucks!

Then it may be due to one of several problems.

One common thing –  Windows 10 will restart automatically when certain system errors occur.

But don’t worry; you can avoid PC restarting problem by just following these simple rules:

Rule 1: The automatic restart option for viewing error messages should be disabled

The errors relating to operating system and hardware drivers would sometimes throw specific error statements before stopping the operation or shutting down the system. When the option Automatically restart is enabled, those error messages might not be displayed. Hence, it is suggested to allow computer to display error messages. Want to disable automatically restart option? Follow these steps

• Search for View advances system settings and open it in Windows
• Under Startup and recovery section, choose Settings
• In System failure section, uncheck Automatically restart and click OK, and then restart the system

Important – The system will not restart automatically when there is a problem. Rather, it displays a blue screen with useful information, which you can use for finding a resolution.

Rule 2: Finding out a failed hard drive

You believe or not, the issue of automatic system restart may also occur if any failures happen in hard drives. However, the failures in hard drive may be due to excess heat inside the computers. When cooling areas a clog with the dust, the temperature inside rises. So to avoid automatic restart, avoid these things.

Rule 3: BIOS update

Updating BIOS can resolve the problem of unexpected restarting of Windows 10 computer. Carefully follow the required steps to update the BIOS.

Rule 4: Perform System Restore

If the problem is recent one, the best option is to restoring the system to a point before the problem began can resolve the problem easily.

Rule 5: Recovering the computer

When all of the above methods fail to resolve the issue, just go with recovering all the software on the computer back to its original configuration.

yeah!!

Wrapping it up

Well, automatic restart of the computer is an important system process required for dealing with system crashes in a proper manner. However, it also makes troubleshooting the cause(s) of the restarts difficult, and is troublesome as well. Thanks to the simple method illustrated above, disabling it is as simple as it can get.

Try it out!