The original complaint, as i understand it, is that, despite all the bravado this app displays, Drive Genius really just runs fsck to repair disks, and that's pretty lame! (especially if they're charging $299 for IT people!!!)
in the original complaint, DW stands for Disk Warrior, the very best directory repair app out there, ever.
You couldn't be more wrong when you say that most failures on a HD are hardware failures! I have been a Mac tech for nearly 12 years, and 99.999% of HD problems were due to corrupt directories. Once repaired, those drives went on living full, happy lives.
There is a myth that Macs running OS X don't get corrupt directories. That's unfortunately wrong. It happens, a lot. It may be benign most of the time, but left unchecked, it can put a serious damper on your Mac experience.
The fact that there is nothing better right now than fsck for Intel Macs is a sin.
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Could not repair my drive - petersconsult
Well, I don't know about all that...The original complaint, as i understand it, is that, despite all the bravado this app displays, Drive Genius really just runs fsck to repair disks, and that's pretty lame! (especially if they're charging $299 for IT people!!!)
in the original complaint, DW stands for Disk Warrior, the very best directory repair app out there, ever.
You couldn't be more wrong when you say that most failures on a HD are hardware failures! I have been a Mac tech for nearly 12 years, and 99.999% of HD problems were due to corrupt directories. Once repaired, those drives went on living full, happy lives.
There is a myth that Macs running OS X don't get corrupt directories. That's unfortunately wrong. It happens, a lot. It may be benign most of the time, but left unchecked, it can put a serious damper on your Mac experience.
The fact that there is nothing better right now than fsck for Intel Macs is a sin.
Just my 2 cents..
Peter
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