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You can also use the format command, with different parameters, from the Recovery Console. For more information about the Recovery Console, see Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE).
The format command creates a new root directory and file system for the disk. It can also check for bad areas on the disk, and it can delete all data on the disk. To be able to use a new disk, you must first use this command to format the disk.
We are planning to collect WIndows security events with Splunk. As far as I know, there are two formats: standard and XML with renderXML=1 option.
I've have found some (older) blog/answers questions which says searching with the xml format can be very slow...
So which one should we choose, which format is recommended currently? Pros and cons? Can somebody help me to decide?
@ikulcsar Personally I favor the normal format over XML - Its easier to read if you are digging through the events.
There are however, some advantages with the XML logs - most notably if you ingest lots of them they are smaller. (Think of your poor licence)
The 'normal' includes lots of boiler plate text which is just noise - we strip this pointless text out thereby shrinking the event size which gives us the best of both worlds.
As some others have noted, sometimes the field extractions can be a bit 'iffy' with XML, but in fairness I have a few servers which randomly start sending double space lines, and that breaks the normal format field extractions too.
I also ran some bench marking on our system and we found that searching 'normal' events was markedly faster than the XML version of the same data - I think I have read posts where people found the opposite.
I have a problem and thought this would be the best post to explain. I currently have a UF installed on a host sending windows security logs to index=wineventlogs in non-XML format (which is what I want). The issue is that the same host is sending the window security logs in xml to index=main, and I cannot find the reason why. I have installed the Splunk App for Win Infra (1.5.0), Win_TA (5.0.1) and Splunk Add on for AD/DNS (1.0.0/1.0.1) on my SH, IDX and UF (where needed).
Maybe there left some old confs somewhere in the other apps. Be careful, the new Windows add-on didn't create and configure indexes for inputs. This could cause been used the default index. Check the docs, please.
@ikulcsar, If within Event Viewer you compare the default mode and XML mode, you will notice that XML has all the details while default mode shows you basic information about the event. If your use case does not require you to pull all the details, you can get the default data rather than getting XML which would obviously be faster because lesser details are being indexed per event. However, if your intent of pulling XML Event Viewer Log is to use some of the additional details then you do not have a choice but to turn on renderXML.
Both from 2016.. this is why I asked this question and try to get up-to-date information about this topic in general. And I prefer the answers be with explanations if possible, not just a yes/no. I have to build the system, so I should understand it how it works.
There is just no reason for a long format in modern harddisk, since writing each block to zero won't do any good to "fix" any actual harddisk problems. These days, harddisk either work, or it needs to send it for RMA, or just dump it.
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This wikiHow teaches you how to format any hard drive connected to your Windows 10 PC. If you just want to format one drive connected to the PC, you can do so using the Disk Management tool. If you want to completely erase all data, reformat the hard drive, and reinstall Windows, you can use the Reset this PC feature in your settings. Be sure to back up your personal files and serial numbers before formatting your PC.
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Windows 11 has done a lot to update and modernize long-neglected parts of Windows' user interface, including many Settings menus and venerable apps like Notepad and Paint. But if you dig deep enough, you'll still find parts of the user interface that look and work like they did in the mid-'90s, either for compatibility reasons or because no one ever thought to go back and update them.
Former Microsoft programmer Dave Plummer shared some history about one of those finely aged bits: the Format dialogue box, which is still used in fully updated Windows 11 installs to this day when you format a disk using Windows Explorer.
Plummer says he wrote the Format dialog in late 1994, when the team was busy porting the user interface from the consumer-focused Windows 95 (released in mid-1995) to the more-stable but more resource-intensive Windows NT (NT 4.0, released in mid-1996, was the first to use the 95-style UI).
Formatting disks "was just one of those areas where Windows NT was different enough from Windows 95 that we had to come up with some custom UI," wrote Plummer on X, formerly Twitter. Plummer didn't specify what those differences were, but even the early versions of Windows NT could already handle multiple filesystems like FAT and NTFS, whereas Windows 95 mostly used FAT16 for everything.
"I got out a piece of paper and wrote down all the options and choices you could make with respect to formatting a disk, like filesystem, label, cluster size, compression, encryption, and so on," Plummer continued. "Then I busted out [Visual] C++ 2.0 and used the Resource Editor to lay out a simple vertical stack of all the choices you had to make, in the approximate order you had to make. It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived. That was some 30 years ago, and the dialog is still my temporary one from that Thursday morning, so be careful about checking in 'temporary' solutions!"
The Windows NT version of the Format dialog is the one that survives today because the consumer and professional versions of Windows began using the NT codebase in the late '90s and early 2000s with the Windows 2000 and Windows XP releases. Plenty has changed since then, but system files like the kernel still have "Windows NT" labels in Windows 11.
Plummer was involved with many bits and pieces of '90s- and early 2000s-era MS-DOS and Windows apps, including the Task Manager, the Space Cadet Pinball game, and the first version of the product activation system that shipped with Windows XP. Plummer left Microsoft in 2003.
Are you running with git bash by any chance? If so, try giving in pure Windows format but double the backslashes. For example, I use something like C:\\dkrshare:/dkrshare. Seems git bash environment rewrites the paths given but docker does not like the rewrite.
In Disk Utility, you can format an external disk that you can use with both a Microsoft Windows-based computer and a Mac. For example, you might want to do this if you use a flash drive to store data files you need to use on your Mac at home and when using a Windows-based computer at school or the public library.
Windows 10 is prone to all sorts of issues, from the sudden disappearance of files to problems with installing updates. If your computer isn't running the way it should, giving you strange errors or performing slowly, then it's probably time for a reset.
You might also want to reset your Windows 10 laptop if you're upgrading to a new device and want to sell your old one. Of course, you don't want to give a laptop filled with sensitive information and personal documents to a stranger. So before you exchange cash for tech, be sure to reformat your Windows 10 laptop.
Reformatting your PC or restoring to an earlier state can clean out any pesky background programs and wipe your computer's hard drive of any unneeded files. The operating system provides a number of options that let you reset your Windows 10 computer to an earlier state.
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