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Old August 27th, 2004, 10:35 PM
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DiskWarrior and disk repair utilities are limited in what they can repair when you're booted from the drive or partition you're trying to repair. The reason that DiskWarrior wants you to boot from the CD and repair the drive is that since you're booted from the drive you want to repair, some of those damaged or overlapped files may be files in use by the system -- and since they're in use, they can't be repaired. That would be like two people trying to write on the same pad of paper at the same time... chaos ensues...

At any rate, heed advice here and get ahold of that CD -- and when you do, burn a copy of the CD and throw it in the laptop bag so you'll always have it with you. Because there will be a "next time."
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