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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10 x 7.24 x 1.34 inches; 5.29 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 020863062007
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ October 2, 2001
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Alsoft
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000095YXH

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3.1 61 ratings

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DiskWarrior is the safe, fast-acting and powerful utility that prevents & eliminates directory damage on your hard drive! Hardware failure presents a potential threat to your data. When a drive mechanism fails, the data on the drive can be lost, with an expensive data recovery service your only option to retrieve your data. DiskWarrior can be used to activate internal diagnostics that are built into disk devices to help determine if a drive is in danger of physical malfunction. If the potential for failure is indicated, DiskWarrior will notify you, giving you the opportunity to back up your data before the drive fails. These tests can be executed manually, or you can choose to have the tests run automatically every hour, day, or week. DiskWarrior also provides several notification options should the diagnostics report a problem. Optimizes directory for maximum directory performance, speeding up overall disk performance Monitors drive hardware for potential drive failure

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J. W. Luther

Worthless software

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 15, 2004

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My experience shows this to be absolutely worthless software. I do not understand how anyone could give it a good review. I wasted money on it based on the reviews that I've read. It scanned my drive, pointed out three problems, and told me the drive was unfixable. I installed Tech Tools Pro 4 and it scanned the same drive, reported the errors and fixed them. Twice Disk Warrior has proven to be totally impotent. Walk on by this product and invest in Tech Tools Pro 4. Would that I could get my money back.

[Added 7/28/11]

I've since come to highly regard this software. I use it professionally. It has saved our bacon many times. It works as advertised. One just needs to understand how it works and what it does. Every Mac owner should own a copy of this software and use it often to keep his system in shape. It identifies and fixes many file system problems that Disk Utility does not catch.

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S

Did its job, but data was corrupted.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 24, 2006

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I have an Emac running OSX 10.3.9, my external firewire drive would not mount. I followed the directions for DW and it got the drive to mount. But, even though I could see my files, mostly video, they where corrupted. They would play with major distortion and hissing. I don't know if it is the drives fault or DW's, I'm just telling the facts.

2 people found this helpful

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Rick S.

Fricken Awesome

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 25, 2003

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This software totally saved me.
I have an 80gb external fireware drive that wasnt playing nice. After running the apple utilities and Norton and getting nowhere, I was faced with some very unpleasant options.
It took three attempts to fix everything, but each time it got a little further than the last and picked up where it left off. It cranked for about three hours total and gave me a detailed report. I couldnt understand a word of it, but it looked extensive; pages long. The bottom line is that everything is working fine now.
I ran it on my powerbook afterwards. That machine had a clean bill from Norton, but Alsoft found thousands of things that needed fixing. It fixed and defragged for 12 hours and all sorts of little things run smoother now.
I really love this software. If you are totally f**ked, try it.

6 people found this helpful

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roger sanders

One Star

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 21, 2015

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The description for the disk was misleading. It would not function on my computer.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 26, 2007

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After spending an afternoon with an AAPL tech and failing to resolve repeated crashes, he suggested DiskWarrior. So glad he did! Not only are there no more crashes but iMac running as fast as it did out of the box 2+ years ago!!

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Aaron J. Pierce

Gift bought on Amazon.com

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 4, 2006

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I bought it for a friend's birthday and it arrived almost overnight and he has used and enjoyed it immensely. So I was very satified with my purchase as I am with almost everything I buy on Amazon's site

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Bad docs, Bad discs, Bad experience

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 13, 2004

I wish I could be one of those people giving DiskWarrior 5 stars and saying "it saved my keester!" Unfortunately, my case is more "I'm still hosed...and now I'm out a hundred bucks!"

The first annoyance was that the DiskWarrior CD itself has been reproduced so cheaply (blue dye, like a 10-cent blank CDR for home burning use) that my G4 wouldn't recognize it. "Yeah, those Phillips superdrives are touchy," says tech support. Mind you, the drive has never rejected any OTHER disc I've tried.

And despite the hundred dollar price tag, there are no printed docs with the disc - just a PDF manual. You know, the kind you could read IF your computer was working. Of course, if it was working you wouldn't need DiskWarrior, would you?

In the PDF manual, it says you can make an additional startup disc (in this case to boot into OS 9 instead of the default OS X)...but it doesn't say HOW to do this, or even hint at it. It's entirely unintuitive, and I needed two phonecalls to tech support AND considerable knowledge of Macs to make such a disc. Not that it helped.

Maybe my problem is more than just a bad directory - but I don't think so. So far, DiskWarrior hasn't accomplished anything. I'd call tech support for help, but they keep only banker's hours (M-F and out the door by 5 central). Considering the markup on this disc-without-manual, you'd think they could afford decent tech support.

I've heard enough good things about DiskWarrior to think it must be doing something for somebody. But for me, the program is overpriced, under documented and a waste of time.

***UPDATE January 2008***

I'm writing this as a followup to the comments above. When I finally needed to boot from the Diskwarrior disk, it didn't work. When I looked at it, the disc itself had completely decomposed in its case - the layers separating and unreadable. It looks like I mashed cottage cheese under it. Honestly, for 100 smackeroos you'd think that Alsoft might at least include an archival quality disk. Or, just maybe, a disk which would last more than a year. The irony of a "disk repair" utility that comes on a defective disk is almost funny.

But it gets worse. I repeatedly tried to reach Alsoft tech support, and finally got someone after about a week. I was told that I'd need to talk to SALES for a replacement disk. So I called Sales, and was told that "media" is guaranteed for only 90 days (!) and moreover that they didn't support version 3 anymore. My only option for the defective disk - an "upgrade" at their standard $50 price...though they'd toss in free shipping. In the end, I paid $100 for a program which was shipped on a defective disk, was REPLACED with a defective disk, and which cannot be replaced by the manufacturer. I'm appalled, pure and simple. I'm done with Alsoft forever.

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Francisco

Reasonable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 22, 2005

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Having heard horror stories about what the wrong version of Disk Warrior could do to Panther (10.3.x) I triple checked my version was Panther compatible before installing. The disk I received from Amazon was version 3.0.3 which is the latest version.
To run it it needs to be installed on your computer. That is even the case when it is that harddrive you wish to check (where you will have to have the CD in the drive and boot from the CD).
After running it I noticed a slight decrease in the time it took for my computer to start up and it may be running, bearly perceptably, faster. I suspect it'll prove its worth as the harddrive gets more crowded. It's a good application to have but don't expect fireworks on newish computers.

10 people found this helpful

Pouleriguen Yannick

Ce produit ne m'a été d'aucune utilité

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on July 7, 2016

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Après l'avoir passé dans mon mac à l'époque je n'ai eu aucun changement dans mon ordinateur.Vraiment je ne vous le recommande pas.

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