DiskWarrior

Thanks for your support, fortunately I do have a second hd and while typing these lines I'm actually working with it. But the damaged hd contains files which have been working realy hard for: e.g. several graphic files for my website and much more. I've heard a lot about diskwarrior's performance an so I tried to buy it online. Nevertheless there's no version for...

so ive got diskwarrior two right? ...

Ok so I got my hands on a copy of Diskwarrior. I install it and crap but it says I can't fix the start-up disk and I need to boot into that CD. How do I do that? I go to System Prefs. and Start-up disk but the DW CD isn't there.

I finally received my Diskwarrior 3 CD, after waiting for 23 billion years. ...

How safe is it to use DiskWarrior? Can it do harm to the file structure of Mac OS X?

I have no idea what "fsck" means, but use Diskwarrior. You will have to boot to OS 9 to use it, but it is by far the best drive fixer for the Mac. If you have an external FW case, it might make the process easier.

Hi. DiskWarrior does NOT optiomize your disk. It only optimizes your directories. If you want to optimize your drive you need either TechTool Pro or Norton Utilities' SpeedDisk. The latter is broken under Jaguar and the former only runs under OS 9.x.x and NOT under classic mode. :mad:

I haven't had to optimize MacOS X for a while and now that Jaguar is here should I still be using Diskwarrior or move to something like Drive 10? ...

I had some problems on my Mac OS X 10.1 system yesterday, and ended up running DiskWarrior while booted in OS 9 to fix it. ...

I have what seems to be all to often, the occassion to repair my OS X volume with Diskwarrior. When it completes its task, I'm messaged that I now have rescued files. When I look at those files they are named inodes. Can anyone tell me what inodes are? What do they do? What should I do with them. I get the feeling that my system is now missing important files. My system...