You can boot using the recovery partition and use the terminal to issue commands to start DiskWarrior.I did that and the process was painless with a 2GB flash drive I had lying around. The smart choice is to use a utility that comes with DiskWarrior to make a bootable flash drive that boots your Mac.
The only problem with this scheme is that it won’t work on a Mac that came with OS X 10.7 or later such as my Mid 2012 MacBook Pro. That was unlike the CD or DVD which could take forever and a day to boot. If you have a Mac that came with OS X 10.6 or earlier, you can boot quickly off the flash drive. The fact that it ships on a USB stick solves one major issue. Clearly, Alsoft needed to go back to square one.Įnter DiskWarrior 5.
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Plus the application wasn’t a 64-bit which meant that it had problems with large hard drives. Instead, you’d have to create a bootable hard drive to boot your Mac. The net result was that while the program still worked on the latest hardware, you couldn’t use the DVD to boot from it. Ultimately they stopped providing updates. But as Apple made the transition to Intel based Macs, updating the DVD or CD became harder for Alsoft to do. For a very long time, you were able to boot from the DiskWarrior CD or DVD to fix your Mac and it worked with any Mac. However for a couple of years or so, Alsoft had a problem. For a very long time DiskWarrior from Alsoft has been my go to tool to recover data and to fix minor problems before they became bigger problems on both my Macs and customer’s Macs.
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