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DiskWarrior

Maintain, repair, and recover system disk/drive data.

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An updated DiskWarrior CD

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Contributed by: warrior_man Thursday, May 12 2005 @ 02:42 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: YES

As the Read Me and the web site both clearly state, when you run the DiskWarrior 3.0.3 Updater you will burn a new CD with the DiskWarrior application updated to 3.0.3. Everything else about the updated CD is exactly the same as your original CD. That is, you still have the same /System version that you had before.

If you purchase new hardware and you have an older DiskWarrior CD, it may be that your older CD will not start your new hardware and you will need a new CD from Alsoft with the latest /System version. There is no updater for that. The /System installation on the CD is licensed from Apple and is shipped "as is". The software license with Apple doesn't permit us to distribute Mac OS X via an updater. Even if Alsoft were allowed to do so, the download would be hundreds of megabytes in size.

Alsoft did not receive a licensed /System from Apple that supported Blue Tooth keyboards and mice until after Apple had begun shipping Blue Tooth devices. If you have Blue Tooth devices and your older DiskWarrior CD does not support them you will need to acquire a new CD from Alsoft.

I hope this clarifies some issues mentioned here.

Rusty Little
Alsoft, Inc.   

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An updated DiskWarrior CD - Jerry Kindall

Alsoft charges only a nominal charge for a new bootable CD, so they're obviously not turning a profit on this service. With that in mind I hope, Rusty, that you don't mind me mentioning that you can use the utility BootCD (do a search here at VT) to make a bootable CD from a Mac OS X installation. Of course BootCD doesn't seem to support Tiger yet, so you'll want to do this from a 10.3 install. As a bonus, you can also copy some other utilities on there as well as DiskWarrior.

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Thursday, May 12 2005 @ 03:09 PM PDT


An updated DiskWarrior CD - fizik

I had a 3.0 updated to 3.0.2 . When 3.0.3 came out, I updated the same 3.0 to 3.0.3. Interestingly, 3.0.2 would boot my aluminum PB and mac mini, but 3.0.3 does not. What gives?

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Saturday, May 14 2005 @ 06:47 PM PDT