DiskWarrior

Same with me. I have a new mac mini and I called apple tech support and we tried everything and nothing worked. I used DiskWarrior and it didn't work. ...

As I was copying music from my external HD to my laptop after a system restore, an error message popped up (I don't remember what it said) and the disk unmounted. This happened as files were being transferred, and I got the "disk removed without being ejected; files may be corrupted" message. I turned the drive off and turned it back on, and received this error: "The disk...

Hi, I have a Western Digital MyBook Studio eddition 750Gb plugged, via USB, into a MacMini (10.5.6). I store my whole music collection (~100Gb) on this drive, and a little while back, started to have trouble playing certain songs from within iTunes. iTunes would not error, it would just refuse to play the track. It then refused to play a long mix, which I had listened to...

Thanks for your detailed answer, EDCC. I haven't done anything to my Mac in any way so it's currently running as stock and problem-free today as it did on day one. Right now my HD space is at about 50% capacity, but I recently freed up about 120 gigs of data (music files) so naturally my thoughts turned to cleaning up those gaps to ensure maximum performance. Glad to...

There is no rebuilding of the Desktop, and there's really nothing similar to it in OS X -- that's not to say that OS X doesn't have maintenance routines to run to keep the system healthy... they're all just run automatically and transparently. If you're talking about your OS X boot drive when you say "Just curious how to clean up gaps of available space," then you don't...

If Diskwarrior got stuck at step 5, that is definitely pointing to a bad HD. Did Diskwarrior say "speed reduced by disk malfunction" while at step 5? ...

I don't have a clue why Spotify would 'copy' all your apps to its own folder. Might be a type of app you should stay away from. It could also be an app that installed parts elsewhere on your system, and is still partially installed. There's a couple of decent apps that purport to remove software completely. Not usually needed on a Mac, but Spotify might be one of the nasty...

Wouldn't start from Diskwarrior CD. ...

Disk Utility finds no problems on this disk, and DiskWarrior is useless in this case. ...

Most problem s is with the drive not formatted right or have disk errors that affect Boot Camp. Even as an old Mac user i was able to install Windows XP2 onto two different models of Mac Books I gave my nephews, easily. If the Mac doesn't have a DVD drive then get a external firewire or better DVDr drive like these. Plus make sure you are using at least 10.5.2 and a XPs2 or...