May 12, 2009
Disk Utility: “File system formatter failed.”
If you receive the “File system formatter failed” error message while trying to partition a large hard drive using Disk Utility in OSX you need to change the partition type to GUID. Click the Options… button at the bottom of the partition list and select the GUID Partition Table:


Thanks for the tip! This is just what I needed.
Jason, thanks a lot for the tip men!, i just spend a lot time trying to do this kind of fomat, and seeing your page in 3 mins solved the problem, thakns man, have a nice one.