DiskWarrior

zackzack
Posted:
in Mac Software edited January 2014
I have a G3 Powerbook that is being checked by DiskWarrior running off a Lacie Firewire drive. Unfortunately, it's been almost 2 days now and it's still going. Is there any hope that it will ever finish? Can anyone suggest a possible timeframe?



I just wanted to add that I think it was Norton that actually caused many of the problems that DiskWarrior is now trying to fix. What a piece of crap!



Thanks

Zack

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 9
    jccbinjccbin Posts: 476member
    I know of one instance where DiskWarrior took nearly a week to reconstruct the drive. It worked. Just wait if it's important.
  • Reply 2 of 9
    drewpropsdrewprops Posts: 2,321member
    Let it keep running!

    When my iBook crashed I'm fairly sure the shop used DiskWarrior to retrieve all my data. It took nearly three days to get everthiing back off of my 20Gb drive. So let it run!
  • Reply 3 of 9
    aquaticaquatic Posts: 5,602member
    Norton sucks. Proof from the reputable SomethingAwful. My fav is Disk Fragmenter®..Guaranteed to raise seek times!?
  • Reply 4 of 9
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    I must reiterate what the members here have said.



    Let DW do its job no matter how long it takes!!



    I have had nothing but BAD experiences (and read many MANY other similar bad experiences) about Norton in recent years, especially on Mac OS X.



    Contrary, DW has saved several drives that Norton could not fix after repeated attempts. I gave up on Norton. I recommend to all my colleagues and friends that they do the same.
  • Reply 5 of 9
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    Where is DiskWarrior 3 already?! Announced beginning of April, still no word though, beginning of May is upon us.



    My socialist self can hardly control the urge to pirate this software asap, but this is something I might pretty well buy.
  • Reply 6 of 9
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    I heard can preorder DW3 from Apple stores. It should be shipping RSN.
  • Reply 7 of 9
    zackzack Posts: 5member
    It's been running for a week now and it's detected 36000+ overlapped files (step 6 out of 11). Is there any hope?



    Zack
  • Reply 8 of 9
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    It could be bad. You might lose some stuff, but I think it's worth the wait if you can get at least *some* of it back.



    Still, I'd let it run as long as it needs. Repair time (as you've noticed) grows drastically as the hard drive size and number of files increases.
  • Reply 9 of 9
    jbljbl Posts: 555member
    If you do lose stuff or give up on DiskWarrior, you might take a look at Data Rescue. Saved my butt once on a disk that even Disk Warrior choked on.
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