Alsoft DiskWarrior 4.0 for Intel & PowerPC Macs

based on intel After upgrading my RAM with a third-party 1GB stick and installing a copy of Snow Leopard that a friend had lying around, my hard drive failed. Because I wasn't getting the results I wanted, I started reading forums about how to improve performance. I'm going to clean up my system and improve its performance. Finally, I entered commands into the terminal blindly, and that was the last time it booted. br>br>When I first learned about DiskWarrior, I was hesitant to invest. The majority of reports of my error code pointed to a completely corrupted hard drive, but I wasn't giving up. I needed my photos, music, and documents, but it would take me two years to give in. Short of trying to initialize my proprietary OSX, I had tried a number of other options. In a last-ditch effort, I took the risk, and to my surprise, Disk Warrior delivered! I would have paid hundreds of dollars more for this product, so it was a steal and a sweet victory in my opinion. I wiped my hard drive and installed a fresh install of my proprietary OSX after I recovered my data, and my laptop now works fine; I'll never know what I did to break it, but it's so old that I don't need it anymore. I'm just thankful I didn't lose hope.

Wesley Terry

| Oct 05, 2021

I couldn't comment on DW's ability to completely restore my Mac because it wasn't dead. My MacPro, on the other hand, was suffering from a severe case of the spinning ball, and nothing seemed to be able to stop it. The messages in Disk Utility, Activity Monitor, and the Console were so cryptic that Bill Gates could have written them. I tried DriveGenius, a program that Apple is said to use at their Genius Bar. At least for this problem, DriveGenius is useless. After that, there was iDefrag. This was a long shot, and speaking of long, it took me 8 hours to figure out what was wrong with my Mac. That said, Cariolis tech support deserves a lot of credit for looking over the Console messages and pointing out some potential issues. br>br>Last but not least, there was Disk Warrior. After the 8-hour defrag, DW's 5-minute procedure came as a pleasant surprise. If I had to find something to criticize about DW, it would be the fix-it mentality. up/clean- When setting up programs, you'll be given a list and told to "examine these carefully to ensure you don't delete any vital items. " Of course, if you knew what each item was, you wouldn't need the utility or have the problem in the first place, but I digress. I accepted DW's new directory, and the spinning ball was greatly reduced, if not completely gone. Things only improved from there. I'm not sure what DW had to do with it, but the spinning ball gradually faded away over the next few days, eventually disappearing completely! Was DW solely responsible for this? We'll never know for sure. But, in terms of resolving the issue, it was a good start.

Roselyn Good

| Jun 22, 2021

I had my entire life on it, and it died on me in the middle of a major project; I took it to the Apple Store, where they informed me that the disk could not be saved. They were unable to locate the disk in any way. I believe I received Error 7- There is no way to fix this disk. It was all I could do to keep myself together when they fella there said, "So let's just get this baby a new hard drive and you'll be up and running in no time. " It was as if he was telling me that my dog had passed away and that we should just get you a new one. I wasn't going to cry in front of him, but I was struggling to keep my composure. I wasn't going to give it to them because I'd heard about Diskwarrior from apple message boards and friends, so I kept my cool and stuffed it back into the box without crying. When the guy left, the woman at the genius bar next to me softly inquired about how long I'd had the computer. "Six years," I managed to squeak out. "Shxx," she said, and I could tell she meant it with complete and total empathy for what I'd lost; I'm a good Catholic mom of eight kids, and I don't usually use the word, but it seemed appropriate at the time. Six years of pictures, six years of work. br>When I got home, I had to order Diskwarrior, which took a few days. It was the type of procrastination that was clearly motivated by a fear of failure. What if I spent $100 only to discover I needed to spend more on a new hard drive? I read every review and decided it was by far my best bet. I waited a month after receiving it before trying it. It was right before Christmas, and I didn't want to find out if it was all gone during the holidays, so here we are, January 19, 2015, and I turned on the computer for the first time since November, plugged in the Diskwarrior disk, and everything was back to perfect in less than an hour. It's hard for me to believe. Thank you so much, Jesus! Thank you for your help, Diskwarrior! I hope this review is useful to someone, and I wish that everyone could feel as relieved and grateful as I do! Of course, I'm going to buy a few "back up your computer" items, both physical and cloud-based. Alleluia!.

Reuben Patrick

| May 11, 2021

This is how I was able to save my 2005 MacBook Pro. I wish I had known about this when my first hard drive failed several years ago, because I would have been able to recover a lot of lost work. When my second hard drive failed, I desperately needed the data on it, and DiskWarrior came to my rescue. br>br>I would advise anyone who tries this not to give up if it doesn't work the first time; finding the disk took a long time, but it eventually appeared in the menu. It got to the point near the end of rebuilding the directory on my failing hard drive where it stopped working for more than a day and nothing appeared to be happening. I figured I had nothing to lose at that point, so I did a hard reboot and gave it another shot. On the second attempt, it was flawless. Except for a few mp3s that I discovered were missing later, I was able to recover everything. Before switching to a new laptop, DiskWarrior allowed me to back up important files.

Madilyn Farley

| Jan 24, 2021