[P1] Disk Repair Software--Recommendations?

[Mike Wallinga]

I do not have any experience with disk repair software beyond Apple's 
own Disk Utility, but I recently read an article from the TidBITS 
newsletter covering this exact topic:

http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07451

I hope this article will help you with your choice.

- Mike W.

P.S. The "re-something" you're talking about is probably re-formatting.  
If your iBook is pretty new and you don't have much personal data on the 
drive yet, it's really not that scary.  On the other hand, if you've got 
a lot of files on the iBook that you don't want to lose, then it's a 
little scarier.  If it comes to that, I'm sure someone on this list can 
help you out if you need it (myself included).  Good luck!

Erin Randel wrote:

> I have a pretty new 14"  ibook that went to a blue screen right before 
> our family vacation in November. (Yay!) When we came back, I got apple 
> care to try and fix it (I didn't know about booting from a disk).
>
> The second, less snotty applecare guy said i'd need a third party 
> program to address some of the ibook's problems: invalid volume file 
> count? Missing thread count? I'm a designer and a bit of a computer 
> retard. The guy told me to get norton, disk 10 (??) or disk warrior.
>
> What have you used, what's worked, how should I pick?
>
> Thanks, Erin
>
> PS: alternative is to re-something the hard drive. Sounds scary!!