Disk Warrior (DW) 4.1 won't startup on 10.5.5 MacPro

Anyone else out there try DW on 10.5.5? Performance was a little shaky so I decided to try DW. When I hold the C key down the grey screen shows up but then it just restarts the computer. Sounds like a lot of users are experiencing poor performance from this update.

Matthew Sheredy wrote:
Anyone else out there try DW on 10.5.5?
Performance was a little shaky so I decided to try DW. When I hold the C key down the grey screen shows up but then it just restarts the computer.
What does the vendor say? Have you checked with them?
Sounds like a lot of users are experiencing poor performance from this update.
"A lot" of people reports poorer performance from every update since day 0. Of course, "a lot" has very little meaning. In the doctor's office, "a lot" of people are reporting poor performance.
You will not see many reports here of computers and systems that do not need fixing. And that is fortunate since there are millions of users out there running Leopard successfully.
I will report however, that my three computers are running very well with no problems.
OpenOffice did not work, but that was OpenOffice's fault, and it has been fixed by them.
My scanners, printers and other apps and programs are all working, as are my internet connections and networking. I am sure that I am in the majority of users with similar conditions.
Again, with each and every update "a lot" of people report problems and slowness. When they fix their machines, we never hear from them again.
All the issues when 10.5.0 came out have vanished. And you should have seen the issues with Tiger when it first came out.

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