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i am yujin · Aug 17, 2003, 04:12 AM

Ok, so I finally get a copy of DW. I reboot into it blah blah blah, and I first do a graph which says like 34% is out of order or wahtever.. so I start rebuilding..and it gets to Step no. 5 (i think) where it says Locating Directory.. You can hear the computer running and stuff so I think everything is going fine, I leave it on for like 3 hours and it still isn't done. No, the computer did not sleep or anything, it was Location Directory for over 3 hours.

How long is this stuff supposed to take?

mfox · Aug 17, 2003, 05:28 AM

It sounds like something went wrong. I've used DW3 on several computers, and the whole process definitely took less than an hour on 10-40 mb drives.

CharlesS · Aug 17, 2003, 10:03 AM

It depends on how messed up your drive is. If you've got serious problems, it could take forever to rebuild.

I would let it run overnight, and then I would make sure I ran the Preview and looked over all the files to make sure they were OK before letting it replace the directory.

desi · Aug 17, 2003, 10:25 AM

what does it mean when you boot up on disk warrior and finder crashes? for some reason that always happens. is there a problem with the computer or disk warrior?

mfox · Aug 17, 2003, 11:29 AM

Originally posted by desi:
what does it mean when you boot up on disk warrior and finder crashes? for some reason that always happens. is there a problem with the computer or disk warrior?

One way to find out would be to create another MacOS X boot disk using BootCD and put DW on it. A startup disk made in this way takes about 10 minutes to boot, but I've tried it and it does work. You can get BootCD from VersionTracker if you don't already have it.

desi · Aug 17, 2003, 02:27 PM

Originally posted by mfox:
One way to find out would be to create another MacOS X boot disk using BootCD and put DW on it. A startup disk made in this way takes about 10 minutes to boot, but I've tried it and it does work. You can get BootCD from VersionTracker if you don't already have it.

well, I don't have OSX or a CD burner(i'm guessing I'd need one for Boot CD), but thanks for the tip.

mfox · Aug 17, 2003, 05:10 PM

Originally posted by desi:
I don't have OSX or a CD burner(i'm guessing I'd need one for Boot CD)

Sorry; I assumed you were dealing with DiskWarrior for OS X. If you have an internal zip drive, you could copy a minimal system to a zip disk to make it bootable, and then copy your version of DW to it.

desi · Aug 17, 2003, 11:19 PM

Originally posted by mfox:
Sorry; I assumed you were dealing with DiskWarrior for OS X. If you have an internal zip drive, you could copy a minimal system to a zip disk to make it bootable, and then copy your version of DW to it.

hey, thanks for the tip, but I just booted up on Norton Utilities and it had the same problem. so, I'm guessing it is either an OS problem or a hardware one.