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DiskWarrior... 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!

  • 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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WHAT'S NEW
Version 4.2:
  • Compatibility with with Mac OS X version 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
  • Numerous internal changes for speed and improved repair.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

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Developer:Alsoft
Downloads:108,663
  - Version d/l:8,064
Utilities:Optimizers
License:Updater
Date:28 Aug 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$99.95
RATING
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Nov 11 2009
*****

SIGIL  Despite my upgrade woes, there is no denying that Diskwarrior is simply the best.   
(Version 4.2)

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Nov 1 2009

PEPPER131  I did burn the update twice. [4.2] worked well on 10.5.8 but not on 10.6 I e mail developer and was told several thing, but the 4.2 version will not work on 1.6. Any suggestions?   
(Version 4.2)

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Oct 17 2009
*****

ICONZ113  I see a lot of "which should I get" questions when it comes to diskwarrior and drive genius. Drive genius is a good application. I have purchased both drive genius and diskwarrior, in my opinion the 2 best. I only wanted to have one of them installed. After getting familiar with them I've decided to install drive genius and not diskwarrior. I did this because Drive genius can perform other tasks that are useful such as cloning drives, defraging, drive slimming, repartitioning, zero out data, perform verification tests, formatting, cloning, and a few other things. I felt I was better off having this installed over diskwarrior which only performs one function basically. However If my drive ever crapped out, I'm reaching for my disk warrior DVD first. So if you ask me which product is better at recovering your harddisk in a jam, my answer is diskwarrior. If you ask me which of the 2 Id rather have installed Im gonna say drive genius for the other things it can do. But when shiz hits the fan, Diskwarrior all the way. I like having the tool set drive genius offers available to me, if my boot drive crapped out having disk warrior installed wouldn't help me anyway, but when theres an emergency I'm reaching for the disk warrior. so if your looking for something that will bring your HD back from the dead get diskwarrior but if your interested in the large toolset drive genius offers then get DG. if you can only have one or the other get diskwarrior.   
(Version 4.2)

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Oct 6 2009

MACMIKEL  DiskWarrior 4.2 Disc Update refuses to burn all DVDs that I feed into the drive. Otherwise the drive works fine.  
(Version 4.2)

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Oct 12 2009

YORUK  I have the same disappointing experience. I updated to DiskWarrior 4.2 as instructed. Unfortunately, the disk does not work; you get a blank screen when you start by holding the C key. I have a brand new MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard (OS 10.6.1). I wrote the DiskWarrior cusotmer service. They say I need an updated boot file because I have a new Mac. The updated boot file can only be obtained on media (no download), which will cost $12.95 plus $8.95 S&H. What an inconvenience and ripoff. I will just use my old DiskWarrior.  
(Version 4.2)

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Sep 24 2009
*****

M85  I've been using this program for over 5 years and love it. Flawless program and flawless updating process... if you bother to pay attention to their instructions.  
(Version 4.2)

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Sep 8 2009

JAN13  This Latest Upgrade does not work with Snow Panther on Intel Based PowerBook. Disk will NOT boot-Up !!!

I am not Happy !  
(Version 4.2)

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Sep 10 2009

CHILEWILLLYY  Snow 'Panther'? Such a CT does not exist. Speaking of non-existence, there's no such thing as an "Intel Powerbook". And for reference, Snow 'Leopard' will not boot/install on a PPC Mac.  
(Version 4.2)

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Sep 3 2009

RPAEGE  Update went flawlessly. Easy as pie. No trouble with the updater, just followed the instructions. I have all original DW disks, since they have ALWAYS been required for updates...unless you *cough* borrowed an updated disk from a friend.  
(Version 4.2)

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Aug 31 2009

GREGJ  To Wile E.

The newly updated disks I burned DID NOT require the

ORIGINAL DISK !!!! This is why I threw it away...........

I just kept using the updated disks to burn the next generation disk.......

Alsoft is a greedy, user unfriendly company ! They don't give

a rat's A__ about their customers. All they want is your money !!!

Well I am done with them forever, I hope you enjoy them...........  
(Version 4.2)

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Sep 4 2009

ILGAZ  When you end up the updating, it clearly states "Please RETAIN YOUR ORIGINAL CD" (caps mine) on a Window that you have to click OK.

What else can they do? Shout over speakers?   
(Version 4.2)

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Sep 6 2009

WILE E.  To GREGJ:

Obviously you have had a lousy experience and I suspect that nothing said here by anyone will change your mind but for someone who wants nothing to do with Alsoft or DW you seem to be spending a lot of time watching their product. If your hope is that an emotional rant will influence people to side with you against Alsoft I believe you will be disappointed.

Alsoft has been using the current updater method for a long time and lots of people have tried to update a previously updated disk unsuccessfully. It has been clear from Alsoft that the original disk must be used to run the updater to produce an updated disk. Perhaps you have been the (un)lucky one that managed to keep updating updated disks without the original disk but somehow I doubt if that is the whole story.

To criticize Alsoft for wanting to make money is pretty naive - they are in business to make money. To say they don't care about their customers is narrow minded in my opinion and certainly not my experience with them.  
(Version 4.2)

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Aug 31 2009
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RONL  Even after Alsoft sent me an email explaining how to use their crippled updater (as most of the people that have posted here have noted) it still doesn't work!

The day another app offers a similar feature I'm done with Alsoft.

They emailed telling me there have only been a few people that have had problems with the updater.

Yeah right.

Read the reviews Alsoft!  
(Version 4.2)

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Aug 30 2009

DONMONTALVO  Updater is flawed, but the update itself is fine if (like others pointed out) the image is burned using Disk Utility.

Don  
(Version 4.2)

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