![]() ![]() your current DiskWarrior CD will not start up your Mac, you will need to upgrade to DiskWarrior 5. If you already own DiskWarrior 3 (your CD is gold and white with the image of the DiskWarrior shield on it) AND. To help you determine if you need to order an upgrade to DiskWarrior 4 or download the DiskWarrior 3.0.3 CD Update, please choose the scenario below that applies to you: This free updater allows owners of DiskWarrior 3.0, 3.0.1 or 3.0.2 to create a new startup CD containing the updated DiskWarrior application. In all cases, DiskWarrior 3.0.2 and earlier, will not harm your disk.Īlsoft still has the DiskWarrior 3.0.3 CD Update available. Attempting to rebuild a disk with DiskWarrior 3.0.2 or earlier, while started from Tiger, will result in an error stating that a "Mac OS Services" failure occurred.Īttempting to rebuild a Tiger disk while started from a DiskWarrior 3.0.2 CD can also result in an error message stating that "This disk appears to have a newer version of the Mac OS disk format than this version of DiskWarrior." When started from earlier versions of the DiskWarrior CD, DiskWarrior may simply indicate that the disk cannot be repaired. order to run DiskWarrior while started from OS X 10.4.x (Tiger) you will need to use DiskWarrior version 3.0.3, 4.0 or later.Įarlier versions of DiskWarrior, while not compatible with Tiger, will not harm your disk. So, at least in my humble opinion, DiskWarrior is the one to get if you’re only going to get one.ĭisk Utility. ![]() And, Drive Genius has many other disk analysis and maintenance options not available in the others, including Find Duplicates, Clone, Defragment, and Malware Scan to name a few.ĭiskWarrior is a one-trick pony, but that pony can often repair damaged hard (or solid-state) disks when other apps can’t. If it works, you’ve saved time and money. Disk Utility is faster, easier, and free. (For what it’s worth, all three have performed flawlessly since their repair).ĭoes that mean you shouldn’t try Disk Utility’s First Aid or buy Drive Genius? Absolutely not. In the past four months, I have had three disks failures that Disk Utility and Drive Genius could not repair but that DiskWarrior could. The big benefit was that I didn’t lose half a day erasing and restoring disks and got back to work in half an hour instead of half a day. DiskWarrior succeeded after both others failed… Instead, I tried DiskWarrior, which repaired the disk damage after rebuilding and replacing the drive’s directories, all in around 30 minutes. Then, DiskWarrior Fixed It (Three Times)! ‘The Other Drobo’ is either not formatted or is a system owned drive that should not be used.” Note that both the Repair and Rebuild options are grayed out and unavailable.Īt this point, it seemed my only option was to erase (reformat) the recalcitrant disks. So I tried my next line of defense, Drive Genius… Drive Genius Failed, Tooĭrive Genius had a different alert I also don’t recall seeing before: Drive Genius can’t mount “The Other Drobo.”Ĭannot Mount Drive. Back up the disk and reformat it as soon as you can.” “macOS can’t repair the disk “The Other Drobo.”You can still open or copy files on the disk, but you can’t save changes to files on the disk. Disk Utility Failedįirst, Disk Utility displayed an alert I don’t remember ever seeing before: macOS can’t repair the disk “The Other Drobo.” Until recently, I’d have told you it was a three-way tie, with each of the three resolving roughly one-third of my disk issues over time. But, since the beginning of this year I’ve had three disk failures only one of these three apps could repair. That alone is reason enough to try it first. For another thing, who knows more about repairing your boot disk than Apple? And, for another ‘nother thing, it’s free (and you know how much I love free).īut when First Aid fails, as it sometimes does, I turn to a pair of third-party tools. When a disk fails or acts wonky-by not mounting when it should, or by disappearing from the desktop when it shouldn’t-the first thing I try is Disk Utility’s First Aid.įor one thing, it’s the only one of the three that doesn’t require you boot from a different disk to repair your startup disk (macOS High Sierra only). So, I also have more hard disk failures than most people.įor as long as I can remember I’ve relied upon the same three products when my hard (or solid state) disks go bad: Apple’s Disk Utility (free), Prosoft Engineering’s Drive Genius ($79), and Alsoft’s DiskWarrior ($119.99). ![]() I have more connected hard drives (usually 7 or 8) than most people. ![]()
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