DiskWarrior

The reason he wants a tune-up is because it is running slow. Do I need to get DiskWarrior, or can I just repair the permissions, safeboot the machine, and then run one of the two programs below? OnyX or Yasu Also, which of the above programs should I use, and what function(s) and settings should I use? How long should everything take to run? Thanks.

I have created the eDrive using TechTool Pro on an external HD. I don't really think that is satisfactory though in the long term. For a start it was extremely slow to set up and eats up a large chunk of what I have left of that drive. Secondly I can picture some possible problem affecting FW, or the actual drive that it is on, that might make it difficult or impossible to...

We had a similar problem on one of our work iMacs running 10.3.x One day the user was trying to print a large file and open an e-mail with a large file attached. The Mac locked up and when she restarted it ended up with "Darwin BSD Login" on a black screen. I checked the web and found quite a few people who had suffered this for a variety of reasons. The advice varied but...

Reset Pram dint work, My HD was re-format using Disk Utility, will have it check it again and found no problem. any idea where can i get a demo version of DiskWarrior? Thanks

I'd like to create a bootable rescue CD that has all my utilities on it, including DiskWarrior 4, TechTool Pro and Apple's Disk Utility. ...

What it means is it could be one of four things. You Mac is having USB problems, the cable is flakey, the enclosure chip is going and lastly the hard disk in the enclosure is going. So do this steps: 1. Unplug the enclosure and then Reset your Pram. 2. Run Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility) on the enclosure on the external. If it can't fix it let Disk...

Once I was booted from firewire clone I ran DiskWarrior on my usual startup drive. Once it finished I restarted to my usual internal startup drive. ...

And how would I make a clone of OS X with Diskwarrior on it? ...

with DiskWarrior on it, plug it it to the Mac you want to rebuild but have that Mac boot from the cloned firewire drive. ...

A couple more questions: 1. When should one use DiskWarrior? 2. How do I partition a hard drive without formatting it and reinstalling the OS?