![]() You'll need Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later to install it, but you can still use it to repair older systems, of course. ![]() ![]() Diskwarrior 4 is Universal Binary and boasts serious speed improvements and a host of major feature additions and enhancements. #Diskwarrior 4 upgrade upgradeĬomplete details available on the product page, which I encourage you to read, with a concise summary of new features on the upgrade page (Thanks, Trevor!). The price has gone up a bit (didn't it used to be $79?), but that's fine by me since there are a bunch of new features. $99.95 gets you the instant gratification download that you'll need to install on a bootable volume other than the one you need to repair, like another Mac or a Firewire drive with an OS already on it (10.3.9 or later). That's right - no download for upgraders, which kinda sucks, since you'll have to wait three to four weeks for delivery of your CD, but I know a number of people who will gladly pay the extra 50 bucks to download the full priced version, rather than wait another 3-4 weeks.Īlsoft will mail you an official bootable CD as well, covering all the bases. Yes, I am those people are crazy.DiskWarrior goes through a process of creating, verifying and comparing a new directory to what's on the drive, then presents you with a "preview" that lets you examine the directory structure yourself, so you can see if anything's out of place. Once you're satisfied that DiskWarrior has done its, you click on "Replace" and it does the rest. The amount of time it takes from start to finish depends entirely on what you're trying to restore and what the speed and working condition of the drive is, but it's much faster than it was before. If you've already tried another disk utility that's failed to recover your drive contents, holding down the option key when you rebuild will pop up an advanced menu a "Scavenge" checkbox will enable DiskWarrior to attempt to undo any damage from other software before continuing. If you ever run into a complete show-stopper with DiskWarrior, don't forget to give Alsoft a call. They stand behind their product 100 percent, and can often help when the software hits stuff it can't handle.ĭiskWarrior's Hardware feature comes in handy if you're trying to troubleshoot a problem with a drive that supports S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology), which is common feature on many hard drives.īy the time you actually start paying attention to the drive's operation, it's probably too late to do much with S.M.A.R.T. information, but it has some uses, especially for system administrators and other support personnel who need to keep systems up and running around the clock. Those folks can set up DiskWarrior to monitor the drive's status and ping you if there's a problem - either through an alert, an e-mail, by executing an AppleScript or by sending a text message from an email account. To get the most out of it, DiskWarrior needs to be running from a drive other than the one you're trying to save.
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