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Diskwarrior 5 review mac#

DiskWarrior 5 is unlike any other disk utility out there and it will come in handy to keep your Mac healthy. Ditto for anyone who supports one to many Macs. If you own a Mac, you need to own a copy of DiskWarrior. Though to be fair, it is decently documented on the sheet that comes with the USB stick.

Also, using the DiskWarrior USB stick with a newer Mac may be daunting to novice users. That’s not handy if you want to read up on something or get some advice on a problem that you might have. I’ll also note that the Files option highlighted some bad OS X files that I will fix by reinstalling OS X as they were likely caused by cloning my hard disk from the last bad Apple hard drive my MacBook had.Ĭons? Other than a sheet that is included with the DiskWarrior USB stick, the documentation is on the USB stick in the form of a PDF. From personal experience, they can help you if you’re really in trouble. There’s a hidden option called “scavenge” that does a much more intensive version of this. If you run into something that DiskWarrior can’t fix. Thus bringing an unbootable Mac back from the dead. This is also the same reason why it can save your rear end if your Mac isn’t bootable as it will find all your files and build a directory around them. It works this well because it rebuilds the directory completely rather than trying to fix it. Not night and day faster, but I did notice it.

Diskwarrior 5 review pro#

In my case when I test ran it on my MacBook Pro after doing a backup (You do backup your computer? Right?), it was quick to optimize my Mac’s directory and I found that my computer booted a touch faster.

Diskwarrior 5 review install#

Now you can install DiskWarrior on your Mac and that will allow you to report problems to you via a few different methods, including popups and e-mails.

Hardware: This uses your hard disk’s built-in diagnostics to determine whether or not it’s working.

Files: This let you repair permissions and check files for damage.

You’ll use this function a lot to ward off trouble and to make sure that your Mac stays speedy.

Directory: This is what you use to rebuild a Mac’s hard disk drive directory.

You still have three options when it comes to what you can do with the app: But if you’re still running a pre-Intel Mac, no worries as you’re covered as well. It’s clear that DiskWarrior 5 is a rewrite as it is much faster to do pretty much anything on the latest Macs out there. Presumably, updates will be downloaded from the Alsoft website and you fish them onto the USB stick either manually or using an application that Alsoft will provide.

Gone are the days where you’d have to run an application that would then essentially copy sections of the program onto a disk image along with any updates to the program onto a new CD or DVD that you’d have to supply.

Diskwarrior 5 review upgrade#

The flash drive has one additional benefit, it’s easy to upgrade when new versions come out. You’ll thank for that advice if you ever need to use it on a non-bootable Mac. It’s not difficult, but it will do you little good if you can’t boot off the recovery partition. You can boot using the recovery partition and use the terminal to issue commands to start DiskWarrior.I did that and the process was painless with a 2GB flash drive I had lying around. The smart choice is to use a utility that comes with DiskWarrior to make a bootable flash drive that boots your Mac.The only problem with this scheme is that it won’t work on a Mac that came with OS X 10.7 or later such as my Mid 2012 MacBook Pro. That was unlike the CD or DVD which could take forever and a day to boot. If you have a Mac that came with OS X 10.6 or earlier, you can boot quickly off the flash drive. The fact that it ships on a USB stick solves one major issue. Clearly, Alsoft needed to go back to square one.Įnter DiskWarrior 5.

Diskwarrior 5 review plus#

Plus the application wasn’t a 64-bit which meant that it had problems with large hard drives. Instead, you’d have to create a bootable hard drive to boot your Mac. The net result was that while the program still worked on the latest hardware, you couldn’t use the DVD to boot from it. Ultimately they stopped providing updates. But as Apple made the transition to Intel based Macs, updating the DVD or CD became harder for Alsoft to do.

For a very long time, you were able to boot from the DiskWarrior CD or DVD to fix your Mac and it worked with any Mac. However for a couple of years or so, Alsoft had a problem. For a very long time DiskWarrior from Alsoft has been my go to tool to recover data and to fix minor problems before they became bigger problems on both my Macs and customer’s Macs.