OS X 10.4.6 DiskWarrior 3.03

OS X 10.4.6 DiskWarrior 3.03 crashes when I hit OK after a rebuild has been completed. I believe this problem is related to the 10.4.6 update. DiskWarrior 3.03 is installed on my hard drive, I am not using the disk. This problem started after the update and does not occur on my other drives that were not updated.
Any suggestions?

According to Alsoft, the makers of Disk Warrior, this problem started with Quicktime 7.0.4. There is a fix that involves changing the name of an audio file inside the Disk Warrior package folder but Alsoft has advised me that they do not recommend this and instead recommend a downgrade of Quicktime to 7.0.3. Alsoft also says that the crash is harmless and that the disk directory is safely re-built before the crash.
The fix (found on MacFixit.com) is to right-click on the Disk Warrior application icon and select Show Package Contents. From there open Contents and then Resources folder. In the Resources folder is a file named Complete.aiff (It's a sound file. If you double click it and you will here the "ting" that happens when Disk Warrior is finished. Change the name of this file to something like AlarmComplete.aiff. Next time you run Disk Warrior it will not crash after finishing. As I said, Alsoft said it's Quicktime 7.0.4 that's doing this. The fix does work. It's up to you if you want to try it.

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File error messages using DiskWarrior-- pList items

The files shown below are corrupted according to a DiskWarrior file check. It was my understanding with earlier OS versions, that the solution was to discard a bad pList, and then the parent Application (or the system itself) would refresh it in the same Library folder. I have done this with Applications before.
I fixed Permissions in Disk Utility before doing any of this.
And now, running 10.9.3 as my system, I navigate to the GO drop down menu at the top of the screen. While depressing the OPTION key. The LIBRARY appears in the menu.
Why can't I find most of these items in the Preferences submenu of Library?
Where are they hiding?
Is the solution to throw them away?
Does any of this matter, or is Disk Warrior sending a false alarm?

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Disk Utility and DiskWarrior trouble with external hard-drive.

I got an external hard-drive that doesn't show up on finder. On both Disk Utility and DiskWarrior it keeps mounting and unmounting. Disk Utility when trying to repair, spits this out when it unmounts...
2011-07-28 22:43:43 -0700: Problems were encountered during repair of the partition map
2011-07-28 22:43:43 -0700: Error: Some information was unavailable during an internal lookup.
2011-07-28 22:43:43 -0700: : Some information was unavailable during an internal lookup.
2011-07-28 22:43:43 -0700: [DUDiskController mountDisk] expecting DUDisk, but got nil
On DiskWarrior it simply says 'Directory cannot be rebuilt due to disk hardware failure (-36,2747)
Earlier today it would stay mounted and Disk Utility would spit out...
Verify and Repair volume “Back-up Hard Drive”
Checking file systemChecking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Invalid sibling link
Rebuilding catalog B-tree.
Invalid node structure
The volume Back-up Hard Drive could not be repaired.
Volume repair complete.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
while DiskWarrior would try to fix it, but on
Step 5: Locating directory date...
Speed reduced by disk malfunction: 339,474, er make that 340,239, er make that 341,327
and I finally gave up there.
I try to fix the Invalid sibling link error via Terminal and I get this...
imac-2:~ Migrated$ fsck_hfs -r /dev/disk2s2
** /dev/rdisk2s2 (NO WRITE)
Can't open /dev/rdisk2s2: Resource busy
Is there ANY THING I can do to get it to stay mounted and possibly fix this? This is my back-up hard-drive!!

It's the cord that's being used that decides if it shows up, or if it shows up and then goes away over and over. Using a cord where it stays on in the programs, when I run Disk Utility of the darked out part of the hard-drive, it spits out...
Verifying and repairing partition map for “MICRONET”
Checking prerequisites
Checking the partition list
Checking for an EFI system partition
Checking the EFI system partition’s size
Checking the EFI system partition’s file system
Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces
Reviewing boot support loaders
Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions
Updating Windows boot.ini files as required
The partition map appears to be OK
while the part of the disk just below it that's light spits out
Verifying volume “Back-up Hard Drive”
Checking file system
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.
Verify and Repair volume “Back-up Hard Drive”
Starting repair tool:
Checking file system
Volume repair complete.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
Disk Utility stopped repairing “Back-up Hard Drive”: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
while DiskWarrior tries to rebuild it and spits out a memory error.

Kernel Panic with DiskWarrior 4.1

After upgrading my MacBook Pro (MacBookPro3,1 with 2GB RAM) to 10.5.3, DiskWarrior 4.1 will reliably trigger a kernel panic when trying to rebuild the directory of the partition on my external FireWire drive that is used for Time Machine backups. The KP happens every time at the end of Step 9 (Waiting for Mac OS X Services to complete). (I should also mention that Step 5 (Locating directory data) is now glacially slow, but eventually completes.) This partition also holds a bootable backup of my system made with SuperDuper. Since there are effectively 2+ copies of everything on my Mac placed on this drive, the file count is over 1.3 million. The text from the panic log is given below.
Wed May 28 22:19:34 2008
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x001A8CD4): Kernel trap at 0x08000004, type 13=general protection, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x0010c2a4, CR3: 0x0143a000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x04776fc0, EBX: 0x047d8600, ECX: 0x0bbc1f20, EDX: 0x0476f700
CR2: 0x0010c2a4, EBP: 0x34c33f38, ESI: 0x00000000, EDI: 0xe00002c2
EFL: 0x00010286, EIP: 0x08000004, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x0bbc0010
Error code: 0x00000000
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x34c33d08 : 0x12b0fa (0x459294 0x34c33d3c 0x133243 0x0)
0x34c33d58 : 0x1a8cd4 (0x4627fc 0x8000004 0xd 0x461f98)
0x34c33e38 : 0x19ede5 (0x34c33e50 0x6 0x34c33f38 0x8000004)
0x34c33e48 : 0x8000004 (0xe 0x130048 0x10 0xbbc0010)
0x34c33f38 : 0x348da5eb (0x47d8600 0x348da382 0x0 0x5)
0x34c33f78 : 0x13eb1d (0xaed8e00 0x0 0x1a236f 0xbbc1f20)
0x34c33fc8 : 0x19ebdc (0x0 0x0 0x1a20b5 0x41d5c80)
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.alsoft.Preview(4.1)@0x348d7000->0x348ddfff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(1.5.2)@0x72c000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
9D34
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.3.0: Fri May 23 00:49:16 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.18~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro3,1 (Mac-F4238BC8)
I booted my Intel Mac mini from the DiskWarrior 4.1 CD (since the CD won't boot the MBP) and tried to rebuild the FireWire disk's directory from there, but the operation fails with a 2154 error (low on RAM error message). I then erased the Time Machine partition and backed up the MacBook Pro to it again using SuperDuper only (Time Machine is off for now). Now with only ~650,000 files on the partition, DiskWarrior will rebuild the directory with no complaints. This partition showed no errors in Disk Utility before being erased.
This machine is otherwise flawless with 10.5.3 under moderately heavy usage and these DiskWarrior operations worked flawlessly under 10.5.2. Is anyone else experiencing this?

PFloyd1973,
That exact Kernal Panic happened on my system and the backtrace reported the same fault.
You should forward this information to Alsoft. After reading your post I sent an email with a copy of the Kernel Panic.
I have my doubts that DiskWarrior is designed (or should be used) to rebuild the directory of a volume which contains a Time Machine Backup. I graphed the directory before attempting a rebuild, and somewhere around 37% was out of order. I just wanted to see what would happen when I tried the rebuild and was not surprised when I got a Kernel Panic.
;~)

Hard Drive Won't Mount (Doesn't show up in diskwarrior.)

Hey guys,
I'm having some major problems with my RAID 5 set up, and I thought one of you might have a solution. I have a 3-month old OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2, with four 2TB HDDs.
Last night, the drive disconnected randomly and is now not reading properly on my computer. When I plug it in I get this error:
'The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer.' 'Initialize, Ignore, Eject'
There is crucial information on this drive, since it's in a RAID 5 configuration, I'm assuming that the hardware is OK, and this is a directory problem. However, the drive is not showing up in Diskwarrior, and First Aid is grayed out in Disk Utility (It appears as a 6TB External RAID).
Can anyone suggest anything I can do to fix this device?
Thanks,
Adam

Does OWC provide any utility software?
A RAID is not a backup and it is possible to lose data from a RAID just like any other storage hardware.

DiskWarrior and Disk Utility can't repair volume after 10.4.6 upgrade

I appreciate any advice on the following problem:
After installing the 10.4.6 update On April 4 (which installed just fine), I did my usual post-installation system maintenance including repairing permissions, running CRON scripts and cleaning the caches. I got a strange Apple Script error that flashed on and off the screen (too quickly for me to document) while I was cleaning the caches, then the process finished. Then when I used DiskWarrior as part of my usual maintenance, it "stuck" while saying that the process was slowed because of a disk error. I waited for an hour, and it never completed. I then restarted using the OS install disk, called up Disk Utility and selected Repair Disk. This is what I got:
Verifying volume "Macintosh HD"
Checking HFS Plus volume
Checking Extreme Overflow file
Checking Catalog file
Invalid node structure (in red font)
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired (in red font)
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit (in bold red font)
1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair (in bold red font)
I cannot repair this problem using either DiskWarrior or the OS installer disk with Disk Utility. In addition, I was unable to archive & install the system while using the OS install disk! I have tried repairing permissions and using DiskWarrior and the OS Installer disk again with no success.
I am able to work on my Mac, but things seem slower and I get occasional oddball errors that make no sense. A few times, applications have quit unexpectedly when they weren't before.
Am I going to have to initialize the hard drive and reload everything?
Many thanks!
--Melissa
Mac G5 (dual 2GHz) Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I had a similar experience after installing 10.4.6.
The messages I got in Disk Repair were:
Checking Catalog file.
Illegal name (in red)
Illegal name (in red)
Keys out of order (in red)
The volume Rich's HD could not be repaired. (red)
Error: the underlying task reported failure on exit. (In red)
After a long time on the phone with Apple, we decided to reinitialize the hard drive. I have reinstalled the OS and am in the laborious process of restoring my user files and non-Apple applications. What a hassle! And I am not even sure all will be restored to proper functionality.
Don't know if either yours or my disk failure are related to 10.4.6 but Apple better watch closely for user feedback. These are potentially disastrous problems for users if they have not backed up.

Disk Utility says no problems but Diskwarrior disagrees

Need some advice. I ran Disk Utility yesterday to verify my drives before upgrading to 10.4.4 on my Dual 2GHz. It came up with some errors but said it couldn't fix them. Went to Diskwarrior which also said it couldn't fix it. Did a safe boot which is supposed to force an 'fsck' but the system never fully booted from that, probably failed at the fsck (the fans turned on full blast at the grey bootup screen then eventually powered off by itself). When I rebooted, I ran Disk Utility and it now reports the drive is fine. Diskwarrior still scoffs at that though.
Disk Utility said something about File Allocation Table mismatch.
Diskwarrior said the directory structure could not be repaired.
SMART says the drive is fine.
TechTool Pro reports a Bitmap mismatch and could not repair the drive.
Thing is, I don't see any problems with the drive at all. System boots fine and there are no corrupt files. It's a 3 month old 300GB Seagate so I don't think it's a hardware problem. But I've had some kernel panics related to my video iPod (the one where the G5 kernel panics if you have low space left on the iPod) which is where I'm guessing this all started from.
I've left it for now with Retrospect backing up the drive to a new external 250GB drive I had to buy just for this. I was planning on formatting the problem drive, testing it again and then restoring the Retrospect backup. (The only issue I've had with Retrospect is I Duplicated the problem drive to that new drive and had about 4000 files with different dates. I'm hoping that doesn't happen using the Backup function instead.)
Is this the right path? Or anybody think it could be a hardware issue? I've never done a full system volume backup with Retrospect, will I run into problems making the restored drive bootable again? And last, are there any other programs I should try?
BTW, I thought Journaling was supposed to fix all this!!

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Backup your data on that drive as my FAQ explains:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html

Old internal Macbook Pro hard drive (now in enclosure) is partially read in Disc Utility, but not in Finder or Diskwarrior - I need those files!

Recently I totalled my old Macbook Pro with a glass of red wine. Fortunately, whilst the guys at the mac store said that almost every component was totally screwed - the HD seemed okay. On their advice I purchased an enclosure, carefully removed and installed the old HD, booted up my new Macbook Pro...
Upon plugging in the drive (via USB) I receive the following message - "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" and the options "Initialize, Ignore, Eject". The drive is, obviously, not read by Finder but upon clicking initialize I get this from Disk Utility.
All options are 'greyed out' - there doesn't seem to be anything that I can do to retrieve the information at this juncture - so I downloaded Diskwarrior but to no avail. It doesn't seem to recognise the existance of the drive at all.
A few things I will try today: Powering the enclosure externally (it's currently running off the USB), Purchasing a different enclosure.
Another issue is that I'm not made of money and I've already forked out £100 for enclosure/Diskwarrior. I am not madly keen on blowing the same amount again to get an engineer to come and shrug at it. Or worse, pay £1 per GB for data retrieval!
Does anyone have any ideas/advice about this at all?

File recovery software: Try using an application such as Data Rescue 3 - http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php or FileSalvage - http://subrosasoft.com, or one of the ones listed in the link below. Some have free trial versions that let you see if the software will help before you decide to buy. You will also need a second hard drive equal to or larger in size than your first drive as a destination drive for recovered files.
http://data-recovery-software-review.toptenreviews.com/mac-recovery-software

Trouble: HD "Data Lost," DiskWarrior stumped, then a "Clean Install"

Hello Classic Fans,
Since installing OS 9.1 on my 1998 WallStreet PowerBook on 25 April 2005, I enjoyed a PERFECT computer until 3 days ago (16 Feb. 2006) when my Mac started badly acting up.
I'll chart what happened and what I did to correct the problem in the hope it may help others. I would also appreciate feedback telling me if what I did was correct and if there's anything else I should do. Since I'm just now back up and running I'm not sure the problem is gone.
Sequence of Events:
16 Feb: While surfing in InternetExplorer 5.1.7 the program quit then the display froze. Ran DiskWarrior (5% out) and installed fresh copy of I.E. I had not had a freeze for many moons!
17 Feb: Got "Data Lost" on HD error message twice. Ran DiskWarrior again (5% out).
Backed up recent important "Documents" stuff to CD.
(Note: From past experience I knew that the HD "Data Lost" error means certain trouble).
18 Feb: It's back! Got HD "Data Lost" right away. This time the error box kept flashing and dinging like nuts and wouldn't stop.
Forced restart.
Flashing "Question Mark" appeared (HD can't recognize its own "System" software!)
Booted to Zip Rescue Disk with DiskWarrior on it.
DiskWarrior can't see HardDrive -- none of my normal desktop icons appear either.
Shut down with Power Button.
Tried to start/boot to HD ("System" folder) using Power Button.
This time HD recognized its "System" folder and started normally! (How come it could normally boot this time but not last time?)
Restarted to the Boot Rescue Zip. This time DiskWarrior COULD see HD, so I ran DiskWarrior (1% out) on the HD and successfully rebuild Directory.
Almost certain now that something was wrong more than DiskWarrior could fix (I had run DiskWarrior twice in 2 days and the problem was still there and getting worse), I consulted the Apple TroubleShooting guide and decided to do a "Clean Install" of OS 9.1 before I lost EVERYTHING on my HD (that dire event happened before!)
Did "Clean Install" of OS 9.1.
Moved the following folders from the "Previous System" suitcase to the new clean install "System" Suitcase: Control Panels, Extensions, Favorites, Apple Menu Items, Startup Items, and Preferences.
After doing that stuff and a restart, my desktop now looks the same as it did before the Clean Install and my applications, etc. are working like they did before too.
Is the problem fixed? I don't know yet. But from past experience I do know that once the HD "Data Lost" error starts appearing bad stuff starts happening really fast.
Als: Since installing OS 9.1 nearly a year ago, I have never rebuilt the desktop or reblessed anything. Was that a mistake? But this PowerBook just ran PERFECT better than when brand new!
Until 3 days ago....then BANG!
Did I follow the correct procedure? Any other suggestions for this eight year old PowerBook to keep it alive?
Thanks and I hope this helps others....
Wallstreet G3 Powerbook Series (1998) Mac OS 9.1.x 233 Hz; 20 GB HD (16 GB free); 288 RAM:

I have no expierence using a zip disk. I have always ran DW directly from the CD. Therefore, unknown if it would have made a difference.
The reason why IE froze could have been because it needed more preferred memory. The newer version needs approximately 300%.
If you were looking at a flash type site, those take up a lot of memory & can cause freezes if your browser does not have enough preferred memory.
Then again, you could have had directory damage. 5% is not much. You could have run Disk First Aid directly from your System Install CD that originally came w/your computer. Whatever, DFA can't repair, then that is when you pull out the heavy artillary (DiskWarrior, etc.).
I would just leave sleeping dogs lie for right now if your computer is running smoothly again.
I would also do a monthly maintenance by running DW & Plus Optimizor.
Rebuild your desktop after updating/upgrading an OS, running a 3rd party utility like DW, downloading & installations.
You really need a backup browser. The following is from Microsoft's website:
"Microsoft ended support for Internet Explorer for Mac on December 31st, 2005, and is not providing any further security or performance updates. As of January 31st, 2006, Internet Explorer for the Mac is no longer available for download from Microsoft."
Alternative OS 9.x Browsers:
Mozilla v1.3.1(Wamcom)
Netscape Browser Archive
Netscape v7.0.2
MacUpdate-NC v7.0.2
iCab v3
Opera v6.0.3

Disk Utility won't Recognize HD after DiskWarrior Freeze

Hello,
Thanks for reading ... all advice and help is much appreciated.
My Powerbook (G4 1.67 15" - OSX 10.4.11) experienced a system freeze. After a forced shut down and reboot all I was getting was the grey apple screen, but no loading wheel. I tried booting in Safe Mode, didn't work. Using Apple Hardware Test I found an "Invalid Memory Access" error. I've experience this before and DiskWarrior had helped in the past (this may have been the wrong choice this time). I know my memory wasn't the issue (tested in a different machine).
I used DiskWarrior (v4.0) to rebuild the HD (again...likely the mistake). After getting hundreds of errors, the rebuild froze (for hours) and was stuck on the spinning ball. After a forced shut down, start up led to a flashing globe and an unknown volume icon.
When I boot from my OSX install disk and choose Disk Utility my HD is not listed (just my cd/dvd drive is listed). My HD isn't listed in Startup Disk either.
Have I permanently corrupted/damaged my HD volume? Any advice on how to proceed?
Thank you very much for your time and help. I really appreciate it.

I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and say your install disc is dirty. Give it wipe over to remove any fingerprints and try again. if you can't get the install disc to recognize your hard drive your hard drive may have failed, which would explain the other events you mentioned. Try cleaning the disc, insert it, shutdown the computer by holding down the power button, then restart while holding down the 'C' key. Then, try to repair the disc via the disc utility on the install disc. If the disc still can't find the hard drive then, unfortunately, it's new drive time.
As for the corruption: I fear an OS reinstall will be your only savior.

DiskWarrior CD stuck in iMac DV 400 SE

I have tried to help a friend who found he has a 400 Mhz iMac G3 DV, (slot loading DVD with 2 Headphone sockets on front) to clean up the drive, speed it up a bit and load some useful software.
It is running OS 8.6 (is this the best OS to keep it at OR can it run OSX?) and has 198 Mbs of RAM installed. I have got stuck - when the DW had finished I clicked Restart and the iMac sounded the Hero chime as if it was Restarting but it subsided into a sort of sleep-like sate, with the Power light pulsing.
The DW CD is still inside - How do you get it out? and each time one presses the Power button to Restart it sounds as if it will but then seems to "spin-down" and again sit with power light pulsing.
I have tried Option start - NO GO
I have tried C start, in the hope it would start from the DW CD but no luck.
I have tried Shift start as if I was starting without Extensions - this time at least it got just a little further but again went to sleep.
I have unplugged power and replugged - no go.
Nothing seems to get me anywhere. When I opened the "bottom" hatch I saw a strange nylon "key" attached to a little arm attached to a black plastic cable that disappeared off towards the front of the machine, as if when I pulled this the CD might pop out - I didn't pull it but what is this, can I find a plan of the layout inside, to find the Eject button for the CD?
Any help would be terrific - I've forgotten all my OS8 keyboard commands too.

philip howe...
What version of DiskWarrior was used in that iMac? If it was Version 3 (yellow and white cd) there may be a serious problem. It contains Mac OS 10 booting resorces and can mangle your system if firmware was not updated.
Version 2 (silver tone/red CD) boots up in Mac OS 9, so it should be safe then. You had to encounter some other hardware problem in the process.
Please post back with your details.
...Ron

Success with iDefrag and DiskWarrior on my Intel iMac! (indirectly)

Had some very good success using iDefrag and DiskWarrior on my intel iMac, both of which do not run directly on the intel platform yet. As I had observed a gradual (modest) slow-down over the course of the past month since I got my iMac, I couldn't help but try to figure out a way to defrag and optimize the hard drive since I had over 125GB (including quite a few large media files, and a couple system updates, both of which tend to cause fragmentation). So, after doing two independent backups on separate external HD's, I ran iDefrag on my iBook and defrag/optimized the iMac's hard drive using Target Disk Mode. As expected, the hd was VERY fragmented - and the process took overnight to complete. Being as careful as possible to ensure no problems, I then ran verify disk and repair permissions on the iMac's hard drive, and no problem. Did notice a very meaningful increase in responsiveness and speed on the iMac, even more than I would have expected. Since I historically always ran DiskWarrior after doing this exercise on my PPC mac's, I decided to attempt the same here. Since I (and others on this board) have been unsuccessful in running DW3.03 using the iMac in Target Disk Mode, I decided to update backup drive #1 post-iDefrag, and was then able to mount this drive (backup#1) and run DiskWarrior on it from the iBook. No problems were detected which was great news, but the I had it write the new index/directory files. I then sync'd back to my iMac's hard drive (from backup#1 to iMac HD) and observed that a number of files were updated most likely as a result of the updated directory/index files from running DW (I use FolderSynchronizer to sync). So keeping backup#2 of the pre-iDefrag/DiskWarrior for a while, but so far so good, and a very meaningful improvement in performance. So the experiment seems to be a success.
DISLAIMERS: If anyone does "try this at home" please backup and re-backup before attempting. In addition, please note that Coriolis is in the process of developing an intel build for iDefrag and probably recommended in general to wait for this update.
iMac 20" 2GHz Core Duo 2GB RAM, iBook 12" 1.33GHz Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Thanks for this posting and the good advice. I put in some time chasing the 801.57 gb limit before finding this thread that steers in the direction I see now I must persue, a new enclosure (modern day version rather than 5 year old technology -- yes, the old external drive has the Oxford chipset mentioned repeatedly in other threads) to go with my new drive. Would have been better off $$-wise to have purchased a complete unit, but this is so much more fun on a Monday evening.
Great being here with you all!

External hard drive clicking and not recognized by mac will DiskWarrior work?

First of all apologizes if I've posted in the wrong community I couldn't find one that really fit my particular query.
I'll give a quick rundown of what happened and see if anyone can help or suggest a course of action. My Seagate External HDD model SRD0SP0 was mounted to my 2013 MacBook Air when it started to make a loud noise freezing the computer and requiring me to force shutdown the entire system. I immediately rebooted the computer and it started up again fine but when I tried plugging in the drive to the USB it would only spin and beep at regular intervals and then go quite. The drive did not mount to the desktop but I could see it in DiskUtility although the 'verify' and 'repair' options were greyed out. I tried to connect to a PC but it would not recognize the drive either. I left the drive alone for a few months and now when I plug it in it starts to fire up with the whirl sound but that is quickly followed by 5 faint ticks followed by a louder click. It almost sounds like something is dragging and the click is it coming to an end before starting up again. (I have a .m4a recording of the this but I don't see an option to upload) This goes on for about 20 seconds and then a window pops up saying something along the lines of 'this disk is not recognized by this computer' and the options to 'initialize' 'ignore' or 'eject'. I have only ever clicked eject. As before the drive is visible in DiskUtility but the options are greyed out.
I contacted a data recovery agency and their response was:
I would recommend to remove bare drive from the External casing and connect it to a computer directly or via another USB enclosure. If the drive is internally fine you should be able to see and copy the files. If you still get the same symptoms then your clicking hard drive most likely has internal problem with read/write heads and needs head assembly swapped from a donor. It's a very serious problem and recovery procedure in this case requires a lot of experience, use of class 100 clean room and specialized equipment.
If stored files are not particularly important you should replace the hard drive. If you need data from the drive we could recover it for $950 USD.
At this time I am not comfortable taking my drive apart and I can not afford close to 1k in repair costs. From my research on this forum I have seem multiple suggestions to try DiskWarrior but I am not sure that it will work with the problems that I am describing. Before I spend the money has anyone had a similar problem and had success recovering their data via DiskWarrior? Or do I have to resort to the data recovery agency or the freezer technique?

If the drive is making clicking sounds then it will probably fail. That's evidence of a mechanical issue. DW isn''t going to fix that nor will Disk Utility. Only replacing it with a new drive will fix it. While you can you should make a backup.

DiskWarrior Preview Not Reading External Hard Drive -- Can't back up files

So I recently fell upon the grey screen with the folder problem. After some research I got disk warrior and ran it on my computer (which I got in September 2006). After it was finished, DiskWarrior told me that the disk was malfunctioning and therefore could not replace the old directory with the new directory. What I take this to mean is that I need to get a new hard drive or a new computer altogether.
Per the recommendation that I back up my files, I tried inserting my USB eternal hard drive, however it is not showing up on the DiskWarrior Preview screen (the one where you would be able to transfer files). I restarted the computer and redid the whole process, and the external drive did show up on the list of disks that I had the option of repairing. I chose to rebuild my internal drive, of course, but came back to the Preview window where I could not get the external drive to appear. How do I back up my files???
I will be able to stop by an Apple store this weekend, so I'd like to know if there is anything else I could do to save my computer, more specifically how I can back up my files in the case that something terrible happens to my data.
Thanks
- Liam

Hi,
I was wondering if you ever resolved this issue as i am having exactly the same problem with my powerbook G4 17" With Leopard (i cant remember the exact version and now i have no way to check).
It recently would not boot up past the gray screen and after a while of the apple logo with the spinning bar it shut it self down again.
After going through all try to book from system disk) and getting pretty dismal results i have come to use disk warrior 4.1.
Now i managed to boot the machine from the disk and have run the rebuild option and after a couple of hours i was faced with the message that
"disk warrior has successfully rebuilt a new directory from the disk named macintosh HD" but then "THE NEW DIRECTORY CANNOT REPLACE THE ORIGINAL DIRECTORY BECAUSE OF A DISK MALFUNCTION"
This report then goes on to tell me that it is highly recommended that i back up all the data from the preview disk.
So this is where the problem lies, i can not get any external drive to in the preview window so that i can copy the information. The drives work just fine, have ample space but i just can not access them through preview window.
I did what was said above as well in restart the disk warrior process agian with the external drive already plugged in (with even an option to rebuild that) yet after rebuilding the internal harddrive again i can not see the external. The weird thing is i know that the machine recognises that it is there as i can save a pdf report to it yet when it comes to access through the preview window there is no such option.
Does anyone know what to do? Do i look for another programme or i could hook it up to another mac and perhaps it would recognise that as a disk to send to . I just need a viable option of getting my data from the internal drive to an external source so that i can re format the thing.
I can see it, i know its there yet i just cant figure out how to do it. Very frustrating.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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.

Do I need DiskWarrior?? Will it fix this problem?

Hello and thank you for reading. I have had issues with my Macbook Pro ever since I swapped out both the ram and hard drive. I thought at first it was a RAM problem but now have been able to boot my mac from the original hard drive, mounted in an external enclosure. My new hard drive is still inside Mac. When I run disk utilities, it can find the drive but it shows it as unmounted. Selecting it and trying to mount the drive fails. I am not sure what this means but would like to try to "start over" with this drive, if at all possible, meaning reformat and clone it again. But since it cannot mount, I am at a loss at what to do. I should say that the internal drive worked OK for 10 minutes or so after the install, but then my Mac crashed and has not worked right since then.
I've read that DiskWarrior might be something that can help fix this drive. Shouldn't I be able to just reformat a drive and try again? I would do that except that I cannot mount it. Does this mean the new drive is toast or can it be fixed some way?
Thank you so much for your help. I am traveling with my computer and need to get it up and running with an internal drive again.

Thomas A Reed wrote:
One thing that confuses me is that my Mac can see the drive, just not mount it. Does this mean that it is connected Ok to mymac or do you still think that this is a connection issue.
I think it's more likely that the drive may be bad, but checking the connections is a cheap and easy (relatively) thing to try, and it could be the problem. If reconnecting all the cables solves the problem, that's a much better solution than having to return or replace the drive and install another new one.
OK, if the disk is bad, I have a new problem. I cloned my internal hard drive on to this new Seagate drive and was able to boot off it no problem, so I know that the clone worked well. Shortly after installing the drive, then all the problems started. Now I have this dead hard drive, with ALL my personal information on it. I would like to return it to get my $175 back. However, since I cannot reformat the drive or erase it in anyway, I am VERY hesitant to give it back. What would you do in such a situation? Sure, the disk appears to be dead, but I am such an amateur, that I might have missed a way to fix this. I guess I have to eat the $175 loss for peace of mind.
What a terrible experience.
Thank you for your help.

OS X 10.4.6 DiskWarrior 3.03

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