[X-Newbies] Disk Warrior saves my bacon

Chris Morland cmorland at cra.lacity.org
Tue Mar 22 13:13:39 PST 2005


posted several weeks back about the problem my machine had in booting 
up and that was the ten minutes it took to load; DW, Disk Utility, Mac 
Janitor and several other didn't solve the problem, but Apple Jack 
worked in this situation. my two cents.

On Mar 20, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Randy B.Singer wrote:

> Robert Ameeti said:
>
>>> Of the commercial utilities, I think that Disk Warrior is by far the
>>> best, but you can probably do without it completely if you are using
>>> OS X.
>>
>> Until your hard drive crashes and burns.
>
> Oh, yes, definitely!  If you have a crashed hard drive, and need Disk
> Warrior, it is a godsend.
>
> I've had Disk Warrior save a trashed hard drive from me under OS 9.
> Fortunatly, under OS X, there seem to be far fewer stories of Macs
> corrupting their directories and folks needing Disk Warrior to 
> ressurect
> their hard drive.  But it, unfortunately, still happens to some folks, 
> as
> you have found out the hard way, Robert.
>
> That doesn't mean that everyone needs to run out and purchase Disk
> Warrior, though.  However it is nice to know that in such an instance 
> you
> can get Disk Warrior and it may save your bacon.
>
>
>
> Randy B. Singer
> Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)
>
> Routine OS X Maintenance and Generic Troubleshooting
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>
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