EIGHTEEN AND 1/2 MAC MOUSE POINTS!! Oh yeah! Mac Life is good again! I spent all last night worrying about a disk that Tech Tool 4 screwed up so bad that it would not show up on my desktop. I spent most of the day trying to retrieve the disk with no success. I downloaded Disk Warrior and within three minutes I was back up. Simply amazing! I am now an evangelist for the product and will use it monthly to rid my system crashes with my complex system setup. I even got the disk icon back! BUY IT-USE IT-LOVE THE PEACE OF MIND!! Thanks Alsoft! I love you!
Freezes I made the mistake of buying this software. Don't do it if you are running the latest Mac OS called Tiger. It will just freeze and not work at all. I have an emac which all other software works just fine, except for this one...Worst of the Worst
Worked great for my iMac! My Os X crashed while doing the software update to 10.3.5. Unfortunately the upgrade froze and I was forced to restart. The computer restarted and went into the Darwin console and would not come out of it regardless of vefifying permissions and other methods. I took my iMac to the Apple store and discovered that this is the program that their techs use to repair disk errors. It recovered all of my data perfectly and is runing good as new now.
Disk Warrior is a disaster I purchased Disk Warrior for my iMac and had no sooner inserted the disk than my computer froze. I mean, froze so completely that I had to remove the disk with a paper clip and unplug the computer to begin a restart. I complained to Alsoft and was told to disconnect any peripherals that had not come with my Mac. I don't have any peripherals of this description. I asked for my money back and was refused. Alsoft will not communicate further.
Saved my time and recovered my data I couldn't get rid of a folder on my 35MB VST Firewire drive. I tried connecting it to my G4 laptop in the hope that I could rid myself of the pesky 'busy' folder, but to no avial all on OS X 3 Panther. Then I went and booted into OS 9.2 hoping I could delete the folder that way. Still, no go. So... I got my trusty Nortons out, tried to fix the disk and I had an awful hang and when I rebooted, the dreaded message came up that the disk was UNREADABLE, initialise or eject was my choice... oh nooooo!!!
So I noticed a trial copy of DiskWarrior Recovery (baby DiskWarrior) on the Nortons boot disk and out of desparation, tried it. Voila, it worked - up came all my precious files and directories which I could no transfer onto the remaining disk space of my 3 Macs. What a relief. I was going to burn CDs to back up the rest of the data I could not fit on the Macs' partitions and then reformat. I was copying files for 3 hours up to 1.30am.
The next morning, I phoned my local reseller who said they had a full DiskWarrior copy in stock. I rushed down and bought it straight away, booted from the CD and in about fifteen minutes, I had the directories fixed, all my files visible and asked it to recover the disk properly and it did!! Oh happy day, now my disk is whirring away, working better and faster than it had previously. The DiskWarrior generated a report said that the directories were "severly damaged" and had to "scavenge" to get the files and folders organised. And it certainly looks like I haven't lost anything, but for the pesky busy folder which has unaccountably disappeared (good riddance).
Nortons' killed my disk, DiskWarrior ressurected it. What more can I say.
PS: My disk died in the end - I believe it was past its 'use by' date! Fortunately, I was able to retrieve the data. Following that, I bought a new disk and used the case supplied with the dead disk.
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