Mountain Lion and Diskwarrior
With my 2010 iMac I upgraded to Mountain Lion. Also followed directions from Alsoft to create a new DiskWarrior DVD -- from 4.2 to 4.4. Am unable to boot from this new DVD. Held the C key for a half hour also used the oprion method letting it try for over an hour and both did not work. Tried the external drive method with Diskwaeeior installed on the startup external drive -- which gives me an error 2153, 4093. I think this means the hard drive is spinning (something on the internal HD is open) -- even though I started off the external HD. I used Carbon Copy Cloner yesterday for the extenal HD.
With DiskWarrior 4.2 while using Lion things worked fine. Everything with DW works as it should except for my not being able to rebuild my internal drive's memory. Are there any suggestions what I could try?
paulfromfremont wrote:
With my 2010 iMac I upgraded to Mountain Lion. Also followed directions from Alsoft to create a new DiskWarrior DVD -- from 4.2 to 4.4. Am unable to boot from this new DVD. Held the C key for a half hour also used the oprion method letting it try for over an hour and both did not work. Tried the external drive method with Diskwaeeior installed on the startup external drive -- which gives me an error 2153, 4093. I think this means the hard drive is spinning (something on the internal HD is open) -- even though I started off the external HD. I used Carbon Copy Cloner yesterday for the extenal HD.
With DiskWarrior 4.2 while using Lion things worked fine. Everything with DW works as it should except for my not being able to rebuild my internal drive's memory. Are there any suggestions what I could try?
What Thomas Reed said.
Same drill here. Upgraded from DW4.2 disk to DW4.4 disk via updater. It is a no-show with option on boot under ML.
Here's what I think is going on. Look at the revision number for your DW4.4 update. You will find that it trails the revision number of a new 4.4 DVD purchase from Alsoft. That latter may boot with ML. The updated 4.4 that we have is likely running boot bits too old to work with ML or our firmware. Alsoft always complains that they are waiting for Apple to release the code ...
I have Lion 10.7.4 clean installed on a separate USB drive. I placed the updated DW 4.4 app in /Applications on that disk. When I want to use DW4.4, it is that USB drive that I option-boot to proceed with successful DW functionality.
Sigh.
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