It’s possible that the other tools were able to repair the directory damage, leaving no damage for DiskWarrior to find. Just what cases, you ask?Īssume you have some other disk repair tools in your machine’s first aid kit, and you tried some of them before running DiskWarrior. But in some cases, you might want DiskWarrior to go ahead and scan the apparently-healthy directory information as well. This makes sense, for if a given portion of the directory isn’t damaged, then there’s no need to repair it. Needless to say, DiskWarrior is a key product in my Mac’s first aid kit.ĭiskWarrior normally scans directories, focusing its attention only on damaged portions of the directory structure. DiskWarrior ( October 2003) would then come to the rescue, rebuilding the damaged directory structure and returning the drive to a usable state-almost always without any data loss.
In my particular case, I had a bad FireWire hub (unbeknownst to me) that was causing my FireWire drives to routinely go into never-never land.
Many people, myself included, rely on DiskWarrior to fix drives that have otherwise become unusable. Here's some stuff on DiskWarriors "scavenge" feature: I've used data rescue with pretty good results, other than the generic file names. There's a hidden data recovery feature in DiskWarrior. we'll see how it turns out, but in the mean time. To his credit, he said this never should have happened. She is currently in heated talks with the manager of the Genius Bar at said Apple store. The SuperDuper backup was admittedly 3 months old, but now my cousin is looking at having lost over 6 years worth of photos, not to mention music, documents, etc. "Was there a backup?" The answer is "Yes." However, the good people at the Apple Genius Bar OVERWROTE it trying to make a copy of the failing drive onto the the external drive that contained the backup. I was looking at Data Rescue 3 and Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery ( v 4.0 ).Īnd to pre-empt questions of. When Diskwarrior initially repaired the drive it indicated about 1000 files with damaged resource attributes (which it said it fixed!) There are many more files than that on the drive (primarily an iPhoto library) that I would like to retrieve.Īre any of the other Disk utilities better at actual file recovery (as opposed to disk repair). and then finally in many case giving an error and aborting the copy. Making it more frustrating is that the each file takes 30-90 seconds, almost locking up the system as it attempts to copy the file. from the virtual or actual drive) result in MANY files that will not copy. DiskWarrior has always been very good to me, but I have a drive that DiskWarrior has rebuilt, but still attempts to recover files (just finder copies.
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