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 > http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html > > _______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984