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DiskWarrior is the essential Mac disk utility.
Everything just disappeared after your Mac went haywire. All your work documents. The music you most enjoy. The movie of your kid's first steps. It's your life and it's gone. Don't panic! DiskWarrior will find your documents, photos, music and any other files when disaster strikes and things go missing.
Perhaps you've tried to open a document and all that happens is a color wheel that spins and spins and spins? Or when your Mac starts up, all you get is a blinking question mark? Or you were in the middle of editing a
Everything just disappeared after your Mac went haywire. All your work documents. The music you most enjoy. The movie of your kid's first steps. It's your life and it's gone. Don't panic! DiskWarrior will find your documents, photos, music and any other files when disaster strikes and things go missing.
Perhaps you've tried to open a document and all that happens is a color wheel that spins and spins and spins? Or when your Mac starts up, all you get is a blinking question mark? Or you were in the middle of editing a
What's New
Version 4.4:
- This release features ongoing internal enhancements for speed and improved repair.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
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| Downloads:156,360 |
| Version Downloads:13,103 |
| Type:Utilities : Optimizers |
| License:Updater |
| Date:10 Oct 2011 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $99.95 |
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DiskWarrior is the essential Mac disk utility.
Everything just disappeared after your Mac went haywire. All your work documents. The music you most enjoy. The movie of your kid's first steps. It's your life and it's gone. Don't panic! DiskWarrior will find your documents, photos, music and any other files when disaster strikes and things go missing.
Perhaps you've tried to open a document and all that happens is a color wheel that spins and spins and spins? Or when your Mac starts up, all you get is a blinking question mark? Or you were in the middle of editing a movie and now your external hard disk isn't on the desktop? Or your MP3s won't play... Or every time you look through your photos, your Mac crashes. DiskWarrior gets you back up and running fast!
Everything just disappeared after your Mac went haywire. All your work documents. The music you most enjoy. The movie of your kid's first steps. It's your life and it's gone. Don't panic! DiskWarrior will find your documents, photos, music and any other files when disaster strikes and things go missing.
Perhaps you've tried to open a document and all that happens is a color wheel that spins and spins and spins? Or when your Mac starts up, all you get is a blinking question mark? Or you were in the middle of editing a movie and now your external hard disk isn't on the desktop? Or your MP3s won't play... Or every time you look through your photos, your Mac crashes. DiskWarrior gets you back up and running fast!
- DiskWarrior repairs disks no other utility program can repair: DiskWarrior can find your missing documents and files. Using a patent-pending, award-winning method of rebuilding directories.
- Just one click finds everything that's missing or broken. With a single click, DiskWarrior finds all salvageable files and folders and builds a new error-free, optimized directory for you to use.
- You can easily check if your missing documents and items have been recovered. DiskWarrior's preview feature lets you see how your disk will appear after it is repaired, but before any changes are made. You can even compare your disk in its damaged state to its repaired state.
- DiskWarrior is incredibly safe to use. DiskWarrior verifies your repaired directory to ensure it is error free. It then uses a fail-safe method of replacing the damaged directory to ensure that interruptions such as power outages won't harm your data.
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I contacted Alsoft and was told to purchase a replacement disk at $20, which I did do.
The replacement also did not show on my desktop. I tried my original disk a couple more times and it finally did show with DiskWarrior running just fine off the disk.
Dunno why my original disk is now working fine but my replacement disk is not.
Anyway, no refund forthcoming from Alsoft. Ah well, sometimes life's a bitch.
I guess that I've now got a $20 coaster for my gin and tonics.
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my new $20 coaster doesn't but all other DVDs and CDs that I've tried run perfectly.
What I just can't grok is why ONLY my new DW DVD doesn't work but every other disk does.
Most puzzling!
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I'd try putting the DW DVD into a different machine to see what happens. If it loads there, it's probably your drive.
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Designer reviewed on 02 Jan 2012
abcd-abcd reviewed on 24 Dec 2011
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Eyeloot reviewed on 10 Dec 2011
I do not recommend the $100 trial that Disk Warrior offers. The software isn't as good as it sounds. They are true to their No Refund Policy.
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lursay reviewed on 23 Nov 2011
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new Mac.
You can make a bootable external drive and install your DW on it --- works just fine. And the bootable external drive thing is sooooo much faster than trying to run it from your optical drive.
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Kzx72 reviewed on 17 Nov 2011
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Pandaiger reviewed on 25 Oct 2011
However, I think it's about time you guys updated the icon, it's still very low resolution (128 x 128). Should be at least 512 x 512 like most Mac apps these days.
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Donmontalvo reviewed on 23 Oct 2011
My only gripe...the update process is just plain silly. Most of us don't use Diskwarrior off the boot disc, and most of us don't keep the original. We run it off a boot disk or launch it from our boot disk to run it on attached drives.
So Alsoft...if you're listening...please, please, give us an updater that doesn't require us to jump through hoops to update just the application.
4 starts...would be 5 but I'm really tired of the silly upgrade process.
Thanks,
Don
Don Montalvo, TX
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the product is unparallelled.
reviewers should separate the product's and the company's judgement
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MacJunkee reviewed on 20 Oct 2011
I had another bizarre situation when, for no reason... I could not move, copy, edit, modify, rename, or basically do anything whatsoever to any of my files on a 2TB external drive. It's like the drive was locked. Ran DiskWarrior and within 2 minutes everything was back up working perfectly again. I honestly think some sort of voodoo magic is involved here. 5 stars from me.
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nymannouri reviewed on 19 Oct 2011
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Then I remembered how to get a copy regardless. I had the updater write an image of the updated disk to my hard disk, and force-quit the application instead of quitting it normally. This prevents the updater from erasing the image file. I was able to retrieve it from the .tmp folder (invisible) and copy it to the desktop. So at least I have a working copy of DW4.3.
I don't know why I have trouble creating a DW CD, my CD/DVD burner works fine for other things.
Any ideas?
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From the docs included with the updater:
To prevent problems from arising while using this updater, Alsoft strongly advises you to quit any running applications first. If possible, you should restart your Mac immediately before continuing. If you encounter any errors during the update process, you should restart your Mac in Safe Mode by holding down the shift key during start up. You can release the shift key when you see the words "Safe Boot."
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Says there is a write error.
The disk mounts fine after burning.
Unable to update DiskWarrior App as the process is interrupted.
Tried two burners and 5 disks.
All fail with an error occurred while writing.
Once it failed while verifying.
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(I'm usually trying it on fairly large volumes - 1TB - 6TB in size, with probably 1-50 million files on them).
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http://www.alsoft.com/Support/index.html
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"DiskWarrior 4 version 4.1 is now shipping on DiskWarrior CD revision 42. This CD is a universal startup CD that can start up both PowerPC and Intel Macs. All Mac models meeting the system requirements for DiskWarrior except the new Mac Pro and Xserve models introduced on 01/08/2008, the MacBook Air introduced on 01/15/2008, the MacBook/MacBook Pro models introduced on 02/26/2008 and the iMac models introduced on 04/28/2008 can be started from the CD. An updated disc that will also start up the most recent Mac models will be released as soon as Apple, Inc. releases new startup files to Alsoft, Inc. and other developers. Click here to learn how to repair the directory of a disk in a Mac model that cannot be started from the DiskWarrior CD."
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Ejecting USB pen drives are no longer registered by the system, quiting any other apps that have been running leaves me unable to get DiskWarrior back to DW, which seems to take on the persona of the last app that has been quit, etc.
I am running DW from a system installed on a Firewire drive.
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DiskWarrior 3.0.3 will be available in just a few days during the first week of May as a FREE update to owners of DiskWarrior 3.0.x. Customers should return to this web page, download the update and use it to create and burn a new DiskWarrior CD containing the updated application. In order to create a new DiskWarrior CD, you must have an administrator name and password, the original DiskWarrior 3.0.x CD, 650 MB of free disk space, and a blank CD-R disc.
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Masterminter rated on 12 Oct 2011
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