Drive Genius or Disk Warrior

Hi, wondering if anyone is using disk warrior and/or drive genius? I understand that drive genius will join partitions without having to do a complete re-install. I have windows via the original bootcamp and want to recover valuable space from it back to my I-Mac partition. Also see the need to defragment after 4 years, and definately fix directory errors.
Any comments will be helpful as I consider which way to go. thankyou

I know this is solved, but wanted to add that Paragon-Software has CampTune to resize partitions (they also have NTFS driver for Mac and a recovery utility). "CT" is done from a CD ISO.
For me, I reformat a drive when a new version of OS comes out, and then a year or so down the road. There can and are improvements to the partition tables and other things.
I've seen problems arise when a drive was initialized back during prior OS and then in using current system. Whether to resize partitions; an OS update that "broke" Windows partition. And just did so with 10.6.5. Plus, time to check for weak sectors. If they are being used by partition tables, you can't even test those.
I've never owned or used DG because Disk Warrior has never failed me and I've owned but never even used TechTool Pro except to test once in awhile, but kept it updated because of the company itself and they use to provide a lively discussion on MacFixit forums in the past.
Free space is nice and essential and minimizes the impact of fragmented free space even. And allows for updates and changes, restore points and abilility to rollback changes.
I'd run a chkdsk on your Windows partition just for fun, but essential before making any changes to size etc, and then redo your backup image, Casper 6 does a good job with that it seems which is rare in the "windows on mac" imaging and restore programs (Acronis for instance, heck I've got trouble with their newest TI Home 2011 even on PCs).
So yes, I'd say your drives are over-due! and might even want to swap drive out for a newer model, one of those lean/mean sportscars or something that have come out lately.
To remove Windows partition, Boot Camp Assistant rather than Disk Utility; or iPartition it sounds like. I kind of thought that relied on 10.5 Leopard to work which was when Disk Utility and OS X added the ability to do more partition changes on the fly (still not as flexible as NTFS though).

Similar Messages

DRIVE 10 vs DISK WARRIOR. Emergency Measures

I have a drive that I think is having a bit of an identity crisis. Not sure if the drive is the source of the problem but the symptoms are manifesting themselves on the drive. It's a 300GB Western Digital and is running on an external enclosure. I'm having file coruption problems, have run DiskWarrior and am considering running Drive 10 but I vaguely remember people saying Drive 10 is sort of bad.
Any opinions?
Weirdest symptom, I can't throw anything away (move items on disk to trash).

Disk Warrior is somewhat unique in that it can reconstruct directories. Drive10 attempts other kinds of repairs, but of the two Disk Warrior is far more useful.
I also suggest that you run Apple's disk utility and repair disk more than once and repair permissions. Disk Warrior should be used after at least two Disk Repairs and re-start cycles.
If your problems continue, you may consider an erase and re-install.

Disk Warrior and Drive Genius Kernel Panic

I'm using an early 2011 Mac Book Pro 2.0GHz i7. Unable to boot from Disk Warrior 4.3 or 4.2 and Drive Genius 3.02. It is causing a kernel panic. I just bought this
Mac Book Pro two day's ago. This is my second MBP in three day's. The first one just blew up. Anyone else have this issue?

Neither DW nor DG versions are on discs that can boot your model. You need an external drive with a bootable system installed and on which you have DW and DG installed. Then boot from the external in order to DW or DG on your MBP's internal drive. Alternatively, you can install a bare copy of OS X onto a 16 GB USB flash drive along with DW and DG.

Disk Warrior, Drive Genius, Reason

I am considering getting a Macbook Pro and am wondering if DiskWarrior and/or Drive Genius will work with the MacBook Pro. Also, has anyone tried running Reason on the MacBook Pro?

As to Disk Warrior, the web site states:
"Requirements for DiskWarrior
To rebuild the directory on a Mac OS Standard (HFS) or Mac OS Extended (HFS Plus) disk, DiskWarrior requires a Mac OS computer with a G3 or better PowerPC (non-Intel) processor (such as a G4 or G5) with built-in FireWire and a minimum of 256 MB RAM (384 MB or more recommended) to start up and run from the ..."
http://alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/index.html
It appears it will not work with Intel chip.

Using "Bootable" - discs for HD Inspection- Disk Warrior and Drive Genius

I have a reasonably new I-Mac G-5 (i-sight) purchased in late Dec. 05. I was advised by the dealer that Disk Warrior would be a good investment - In February, I thought that I would use it to check on my HD-- This is Disk Warrior version 3.0.3 rev.39. It is bootable holding down C key after restart, but it just shows the Apple logo, spins and spins then shows a circle with a diagonal line through it. After a very long wait, I cannot get the disk to eject (just keeps spinning). Only way that I can get it out is to cut the power to the computer, restart and then eject the disk when it shows up on the desktop. I later purchased Drive Genius and it does the same thing. I have previously used Norton Utilities for years on my earlier Macs -- No problems. What's wrong?
OldProf
i Mac G-5 i sight Mac OS X (10.4.5) 1gb of memory -use HP Laserjet 1320 and Epson R300M printer

Just one thing, you say you previously used Norton Utiliities.
FYI. Norton was the industry standard when Peter Norton Owned the Co. and was excellent for OS9. The combination of Peter Norton selling to Symantic and the advent of OSX Norton is no longer the standard at which all others are judged. It has become poison to OSX.
I suggest get rid of anything you have on your computer Norton and repair permissions and see if this improves your problems.
You may have to use the Uninstaller.
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/num.nsf/docid/2003110711002611
Good Luck
Don

Fatal Disk Error via Drive Genius

Hi all. My computer was/is running very slow while booting and shutting down. The booting up process is only completed when I open one of the items in the dock. I decided to run Drive Genius. I ran the Defrag and got this message:
"Verify Failed. invalid catalog btree depth info (4.1)"
It suggested I repair it. When I run the repair function of Disc Warrior it says "Fatal Disc Error".
Naturally I ran time machine and backed up the entire drive. I'm assuming the drive is on it's last legs and beyond repair? Any suggestions on how to remedy this? I'm thinking I have to buy a new drive and install Leopard on it and transfer everything on the faulty drive to a new one. Any help would be appreciated.

First I'd suggest you try erasing the drive. It's possible it's just a disk catalog corruption that's no repairable but that could be corrected via a reformat. If the reformat fails, then it's likely that the disk is indeed failing and may need to be replaced.
Whichever route you have to do, if you have a successful backup of the full drive, you should be able to just boot from the Leopard installation disk and select the "Restore from Time Machine" option (it may not be phrased exactly that way) and get the entire system back.
BTW, your user name here doesn't exactly inspire folks to feel really enthusiastic about helping you.
Message was edited by: Dave Sawyer

Is Drive Genius the best disk utility for Mac?

I just wanted to see if any one had an opinion on Drive Genius? I have one computer that is brand new (Imac) and a Powerbook that is a bit old. I want to keep them both running in tip-top shape.

I've not used Drive Genius and cannot comment on that program but I have used Disk Warrior and Tech Tools Pro and Data Rescue. All three have fixed me up but if I had to choose just one of these it would be Tech Tools Pro because DW is a one-trick pony for the price and I think that Tech Tools Pro can now do what Data Rescue can do. I just didn't have it when I used Data Rescue but the app seems to have caught up doing what the other two can do. More for your money!
BTW: I didn't buy Drive Genius because when I decided on buying Disk Warrior I read some negatives about it. Things like additional corruption caused by running it and inabilities to fix things that seemed like Disk Utility could easily resolve. That was a few years ago so hopefully they fixed some of the failures it had that seemed as valid issues at the time.
Message was edited by: David Farah

External Hard drive "not readable", does not show up in Disk Warrior either. Help me, please!

I have a 500gb G Drive Slim that is almost brand new. I accidentally pulled the cord out when it was connected, and now when I try to open it, it says "not readable by this computer." This is what I see when I go into disc utility:
I called G Drive, and they told me to download Disk Warrior 4. I did, and this is what I see when I open it:
My hard drive doesn't show up...i'm not sure if i'm doing something wrong but I just paid $100 dollars for this and I'd really like some help. I read the manual and it wasn't helpful at all.
Please help me!

Make sure it's format is Mac OS Extended (Journeled).
To check it's format, plug in the External HDD and search Disk Utility in the spotlight. Click the External HDD and go to the Partition tab. If it isn't Mac OS Extended change it and format it.
You shouldn't need any of these external applications to use it. I have one and use it like a flash drive.

PhotoShop CC 2014 - Blowing Directories on Hard Drives - Should Ship with a free Version of Disk Warrior ;-)

Since installing PS CC 2014 I have had serious problems.
Problems one could expect from a 'new' software.
However, having my drives' directories damaged due to Scratch Disks is something I have never seen before.
I had PS use an SSD as Scratch Disk. As this became full, I assigned another scratch disk (This time a RAID0).
As it ran full (200GB of PS Scratch) All the other files on that drive vanished. And photoshop was no longer able to even save the current document
(event though the destination had enough space avail.) See screenshot:(Watch the finder status in the back, the doc to be saved was 200MB and my disk had 3.38 GB avail.
But PS would not let me save due to scratch disks full)
Anyway, back to the serious problem. The RAID0 scratch disk, after I quit PS, was not longer mountable.
Trying to repair it with DU reported:
And trying with terminal This:
** /dev/rdisk13
Executing fsck_hfs (version hfs-226.1.1).
** Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
** Checking extents overflow file.
** Checking catalog file.
** Rebuilding catalog B-tree.
CreateNewBTree returned -34
Disk full error
So I went ahead and did some research and found Disk Warrior.
It was able to rebuild my catalog and I am up an running again.
But having to spend $99 on a PS bug is not so nice. I have been able to recreate this problem 3 times the past hours.
The problem occurs only when PS is using the RAID as Scratch disk. If I try to fill the drive by writing to it via terminal or Finder,
i just get a Disk is Full. PS on the other hand will blow the catalog and make the disk unmountable...
Any Ideas ?

Thanks for your reply, Chris Cox. I've checked the Windows System Event Log and here are the details:
Details (Tab) of same error (Photoshop)
I noticed since Jan 5, 2015, Photoshop has crashed a lot. I run Adobe Illustrator with it but it doesn't give the same errors. Other applications run fine too, so I'm not sure if it as you mentioned that it is the "system" that is crashing so often.
(You seem to have suggested a video card upgrade. I will work on that next. Thanks)
I hope you or anyone who can, help me with this problem with Photoshop and the issue with my account in Creative Cloud.
Looking forward to your help. Thank you.

External Hard Drive won't mount - tried Disk Warrior, am backing up as a .dmg...will this work?

Hi Guys,
Hopefully someone can help! Fairly desperate situation here...
I backed up around 700GB of data to an Iomega external hard drive (supplied by the client), using my Macbook Pro...all was fine when I unmounted the drive at the end of the backup.
The client took the drive away and called me to say he mounted the drive in Windows (on a PC), and he was able to work with the files for a time, but now the drive won't mount...
I collected the drive, hooked it up to my Mac Pro, but OSX tells me it can't mount the drive. It shows up in Disk Utility in the sidebar, but not on the desktop...
I tried repairing the disk using Disk Utility and with Disk Warrior, both tell me the disk cannot be repaired...
I am currently making a backup of the drive as a .dmg file, using a program called Disk Drill...it's slow as I expected, but I'm still not sure the .dmg will mount...because surely it's just making a copy of the data exactly, of which some part is not mounting (a mount directory or something???)
Is there any way you guys can think of me somehow taking the data and backing it up onto another disk?
Specialist recovery services seem to think there shouldn't be any problem recovering the data, and of couse, as a costly last resort, that's what I'll have to do, but does anyone know how they may go about doing it? It is something vastly complicated such as a command line thing?
Sorry about the length of this question...just hope someone can help!
Thanks in advance...

You didn't say what format (filesystem type) the disk was.
However, I'd say your analysis is probably correct. Something has corrupted the disk. You can make a disk image copy to the .dmg which will preserve the data, such as it is, but I doubt extremely if it will fix any file system corruption.
Furthermore, if both Disk Utility and Disk Warrior have said the disk is unreadable I'm dubious that anything else will magically repair it and that recovery probably consists of snuffling through the disk block by block.
However if the filesystem is FAT (Windows) there may be other (Windows) utilities that can fix it.
You said you 'backed up the data'. Does that mean you still have the original data on your MBP? Are you trying to recover the client's changes?

Using Disk Warrior on external drive causes MacBook crash

I work on MacBook System 10.6.7, I back up to LaCie external drive, which I partitioned so that one partition is only for backup, the other is bootable. On this partition I have a clone of Disk Warrior (4.1), to use on the MacBook .
Today I ran DW from the MacBook on the external drive for the first time, because lately it happens that the backup partition does not always appear in the finder (still performs back up though). I applied it first to the boot-partition, and it told me there were some problems. When it got to replacing the directory, the computer crashed mid way.
I performed Disk Verify on that partition through Disk Utility, and it said that it needed repair, and then that it did repair it. Checked other partition, no problem.
Tried again to rebuild directory for the external drive, and both partitions caused the MacBook to crash. I then booted from the external drive to see if it works, and ran DW on the MacBook, and had no problem there.
Anybody can tell me if it is the MacBook that caused the crash, or if the problem is with the external, and if there is anything else I can try to sort it out?
thanks,

I work on MacBook System 10.6.7, I back up to LaCie external drive, which I partitioned so that one partition is only for backup, the other is bootable. On this partition I have a clone of Disk Warrior (4.1), to use on the MacBook .
Today I ran DW from the MacBook on the external drive for the first time, because lately it happens that the backup partition does not always appear in the finder (still performs back up though). I applied it first to the boot-partition, and it told me there were some problems. When it got to replacing the directory, the computer crashed mid way.
I performed Disk Verify on that partition through Disk Utility, and it said that it needed repair, and then that it did repair it. Checked other partition, no problem.
Tried again to rebuild directory for the external drive, and both partitions caused the MacBook to crash. I then booted from the external drive to see if it works, and ran DW on the MacBook, and had no problem there.
Anybody can tell me if it is the MacBook that caused the crash, or if the problem is with the external, and if there is anything else I can try to sort it out?
thanks,

Running Disk Warrior on Time Machine Drive

Running Disk Warrior on Time Machine Drive
is this recommended? I like using it on the Mac & other drives but am concerned that its optomizing may interfere w/ the way Time Machine Bkups get organized.
Thanks
DS

I'd be a bit inclined to leave it alone, particularly if you aren't actually having any problems. The TM machine folders are organized in their own special way.

Can't turn off Verbose Mode after running disk defrag in minimal environment using Drive Genius 3

New to posting on here. I'm using a
Mid-2009 15in MacBook Pro
2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB memory
After running Disk Defrag in a minimal environment using Drive Genius 3 my MacBook Pro only starts up in Verbose Mode.
I've done my searching on how to turn verbose mode on and off on the web and it gets me nowhere.
Using
sudo nvram –p
in terminal shows that there is no " v" after " boot-args "
Using
sudo nvram boot-args=
to turn it off hasn't done anything.

I'm having the same issue but the solution suggested by prosoft doesn't work because that file des not exist.
Prosoft was able to help me.
First, FileVault is not reccomended and they are adding a FAQ to address that. Next, they said to trash this file:
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
and to restart. It seemed to have worked for me.
If anyone has any other suggestions then I would be grateful.
Many Thanks.

Trying to Disk Copy/Clone of MacBook Pro Using Drive Genius 3

I am trying to make a clone or sector-by-sector copy of my main disk (500Gb) of my MacBook Pro (10.6.8)- using Drive Genius 3
My main disk also has a Bootcamp partition.
I am using a 1Tb external HD with 2 partitions - partition 1 is 50Gb and contains Startup utilities and Drive Genius 3.
I am trying to make a disk copy of my main disk and wish to store the copy on partition 2 (950Gb).
I booted up my MacBook using partition 1 of the external HD - opened DG3 and selected 'Duplicate'.
Then under 'Drive' - I selected the main disk of 500Gb - but under 'Destination' - it would not allow me to select partition 2.
The window only showed the 1TB ext. Hd which itself was unselectable.
How do I get my disk copy stored on partition 2?

Do this instead:
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
Select the destination volume from the left side list.
Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
Check the box labeled Erase destination.
Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the external drive partition. Source means the internal startup drive.

Disk Utility and Disk Warrior error on internal hard drive....PLEASE HELP!!

After running idefrag on my internal Western Digital 120gig hard drive. The drive did not appear after I rebooted my mac. I opened Disk Utility and the drive is there but grayed out. I used "repair disk" under First Aid and it gave me this error:
Verify and Repair disk “HD 120”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Invalid B-tree node size
Volume check failed.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error
Then I tried using Disk Warrior 3.0 to rebuild and it gave me this error:
error ""WD 120 GB" cannot be rebuilt. The original directory is too severely damaged. The disk was not modified (2155, 2179)".
I'm not sure if this is the right area to post this, but I need help as most of my important data is on this hard drive. What else can I do?
I am on a g4 quicksilver with 10.4.3 installed.

Sorry to hear about your problem but unless you are working with very large files such as with video editing, etc., using a defrag utility is not required with OS X and no defrag utility should be used on a hard drive without a backup first.
The current Disk Warrior version for Tiger is 3.0.3 and if Disk Warrior cannot repair the drive/directory, it must be in bad shape which was caused by using idefrag.
You can try using a data recovery utility such as Data Rescue (Prosoft Engineering) which includes a free trial version.

Drive Genius or Disk Warrior

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for