This hiccup gave me the opportunity to create my own bootable drive using the latest version of DiskWarrior Recovery Maker (v1.1), a three-minute process. The version of DiskWarrior included on my flash drive wasnt compatible with my operating system ( macOS Sierra ). It took me longer than I care to admit to realize I had forgotten to include the forward slash before Volumes. Its important that to enter that command exactly: add a space or lose a slash and DiskWarrior wont launch. You must boot into the Recovery partition (you hold down the R key), launch the Terminal (from the Utilities menu), and enter a command into the prompt (VolumesDWgo). If a disk is mechanically failing, DiskWarrior lets you repair your Macs directory and back up its data before you replace the drive. Given that a directory contains millions of data points, the process is simpler in theory than practice. Unlike other utilities that attempt to repair problems in the existing directory, DiskWarrior creates a new directory.
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In the current version, the method has changed, but not the aim.ĭiskWarrior is designed to scan, maintain, and repair the directory, which you can think of as a table of contents.ĭefective RAM, power glitches, and poorly-written software can throw that table of contents into disorder.
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While Prosoft Data Rescue 4 (99.00 at Prosoft) can scan disks to recover lost or deleted files, DiskWarrior is unrivaled in its ability to repair and rebuild the Mac directory. That includes utilities from Apple, whose Disk Utility may be suitable for basic maintenance and partition, but remains ill-prepared to repair badly damaged directories that result in kernel panics and boot failures. While Alsoft has updated the utility and adopted flash storage over the past 18 years, DiskWarrior continues to perform maintenance and recovery tasks that no other utility can do.
In fact, Alsoft DiskWarrior is one of the best utilities you can buy for your Mac. Today, the utility is no less useful for a swivel-neck iMac or a MacBook with a solid-state drive (SSD).
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