![]() ![]() It is a very misleading impression that DW leaves (and don't get me wrong- I love having DW around and it has saved me on more than one occasion!) concerning fragmentation. ![]() It is only directory defragmentaton- that is, when complete all the directory entries on the disk will be in order but the actual files stored on the disk will still be scattered around the disk (fragmented) just as they were before you ran the DW session. Simply put, running a DW session and then checking again in the graph mode will show 0% fragmentation and that is true- but it is not file defragmentation in reality. OK, so that is one thing- but one more thing that may prove more troubling to you is in regards to what you believe, as I did at one point, that DW does in regards to Defragmentation. Sadly enough I fall into the same boat as my r42 disk will not boot my early 2008 Mac Pro either but I use the same solution by booting from one of my external clone backups and running the latest DW version (version 4.1.1- which is required for OSX 10.5.5) from it which works fine. As was stated above, the current shipping version is now a DVD which carries the r810 designation- and that is the first release that will boot the early 2008 Macs. Each revision adds support for booting newer and newer Macs- and as of r42, the Macs introduced in early 2008 (including your 2.4Ghz MacBook) were not bootable from the disk. The "r42" designation of Disk Warrior refers to the revision of the boot software on the disk. The answer to the booting problem is exactly right in catroom's post just above. Does anybody have any suggestions? I have an external HD that I do Time Machine backups on, could I possibly boot from that and run DiskWarrior on my HD through my external? If so, how could that be done? I would really like to fix this myself and avoid the ridiculous repair fees in my area (and no I don't have an apple warranty), so any help would be awesome!! Thanks. I am at a loss of what to do, and my mac is starting to do strange things, like the time won't update, and it takes forever to connect to a wireless network. I even installed Drive Genius 2 and tried that. I have tried this method many times, holding down the option key, etc. I saw the grey apple, then all of a sudden it restarted again. So, I grabbed my DiskWarrior CD and put it in my Macbook and restarted holding down the C key. I recently graphed my HD, and 30% of my files were out of order. Can it be true that it only works with hard drives? Seriously? Finally, I'm hoping someone with the appropriate technical background can answer this question: Do you really want to be "secure erasing" files or free space on solid state drives? If secure erasing SSD means overwriting it with random patterns over and over, as is typically done with hard drives, doesn't that just increase wear on the SSD and shorten its useful lifetime? Thanks for any replies.So I have a White Macbook 2.4GHz 2GB RAM 160 GB running Leopard 10.5.5 (latest version), and I have DiskWarrior installed (latest CD version 42, which is Leopard compatible). Beyond that, DG is just a collection of so-so utilities. I suppose it has a real-time component, but no Mac user should need that anyway. And why did DG feel the need to tack on a "me too" malware scan? There are tons of those out there already. I can't see why anyone would use "Drive Pulse" (or TechTool's equivalent real-time drive monitor). TechTool Pro always seemed to me to be better. Even the interface seemed overly slick with all those moving parts. I used to own and use "Drive Genius," but I can't say I ever liked it and I didn't like the pretensions of having "Genius" in the name.
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