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Archive Disk Corrupted…Options?
I just had a Western Digital 500GB “My Book” come up as unreadable.
Thankfully it only had 2 small projects on it.
Disk First Aid in OS X cannot get anything (repair and verify do nothing)
What other (hopefully free or low cost) options have I ?
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6 Replies
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Try Disk Warrior. Many of us swear by it. Also, if you’re backing up to a hard drive, you should probably be backing up to 2 of them. For just this reason.
Arnie
Now in post: Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
https://www.arniepix.com/blog -
I did some further reading and found out about Disk Warrior.
If allowed me to copy the 2 projects back to my array.
Count me on the list of sworn users!
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Borjis, I think that if everybody would use Diskwarrior or Techtools the number of posts in those forums would decrease in at least a 20%. Whenever I start to have problems with FC the first things that I do is to rstart in “safe mode”, repair permissions and run one of those programs. The last things: Trash prefferences and re-install FC.
Cheers,
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[rafalaos] ” I think that if everybody would use Diskwarrior or Techtools the number of posts in those forums would decrease in at least a 20%.”
Maybe more. I can’t even remember how long I’ve used DiskWarrior — 20 years I think, maybe more. It’s the one utility I’d never consider operating without. Truly indispensible.
TechTools is also a winner, and I’ve used it for daily maintenance. But DiskWarrior is the one that’s most often saved my life.
Which is why I used them both. The reason that using them will reduce the number of questions here is because they’ll reduce the number of problems you have. Buy ’em. Work better. Be happier.
Best,
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I agree 100%.
Rafael -
Will Disk Warrior work with XSAN?
Jim Calahan
KVIE, Sacramento
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