
Technologies have fairly certain half lives. Although with the cost of really good reliable ssd’ s dropping, I wonder how relevant or financially strong DW will be in the future. It’ s so much easier to have it in place, rather than reacting, without having done your homework. As HobeSoundDarryl stated, Having insurance is just smart decision making, and part of a good recovery and redundancy plan. The two must have’s for me are CCC, or Super Duper and DW. It's going to a recovery center.Ĭan anyone recommend a recovery company who is skilled yet reasonably priced? I'm in So Cal. The only volume I do not have a backup of, also. I currently have 3TB Seagate, a buddy was carrying when he tripped and slammed it to the floor reaching to save himself. I had an ext hd, die in an electrical storm, 1 month out of warranty. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Lets not forget DW has been working with Apple since 1984. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button.
#Diskwarrior upgrade update#
Just wait and see to get the next update that will handle with the APFS volumes. You will be the indispensable guy that can fix everything -) This software is not for everyone, but if you are the "geek" friend of someone or many others, then you have to get it. When I was not able to start a computer in target mode to repair its internal hard disk from another computer, I could use the Diskwarrior boot USB key to boot the computer and repair the disk.
#Diskwarrior upgrade for free#
We cannot blame Diskwarrior for this.īut, with the time, I was able to get Diskwarrior updated for free or for a small upgrade cost and to easily update my computers and USB boot keys. Sometimes it didn't, because the disk had serious hardware failures and couldn't be repaired. Many times after, it saved me and saved friend's computers and disks, where there was no backup available. At this time, I felt like trapped to be forced to pay this amount to be saved because I had no other choice. Many years ago, Diskwarrior cost me about 100 USD to get it and to get me out of serious problems. When you are facing a real issue with your disk and files, it won't be very helpful, unfortunately. It can check, find errors, sometime repair, repair file permissions, but that's all.

The Apple disk utility app is just no able to repair disks, most of the time. Hoping that APFS will do the job for the future. HFS+ is not a real good file system and it is not very safe. For the ones who asked if DiskWarrior is useful or useless and if it worth the price you pay for it : it saved me and a lot of friend's computers many times for several reasons :
