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Cheap Disk Fixing Software
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: New York
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Disk Utility says it can't do it and I don't want to wipe the drive clean. What can I get that's relatively cheap to fix my hard disk? I'm running 10.4.9 with a SATA drive HFS+ formatted.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Dec 2000
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DiskWarrior isn't cheap, but it'll fix your disk. The others... might. Or they might screw it up worse.
The cheap way to fix a disk is to reformat it, I'm afraid.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Charles is right, for the price of DW you can get a second hard drive and you already know that you need one anyway!
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Senior User
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: California
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For what it has done successfully for me, Diskwarrior *is* cheap.
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20" iMac C2D/2.4GHz 3GB RAM 10.6.8 (10H549)
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: London
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If Disk utility says it cant repair the disk (because its the boot disk) then u can do it from macosx install disks!!
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MacBook Pro 2.2 i7 | 4GB | 128GB SSD ~ 500GB+2TB Externals ~ iPhone 4 32GB
Canon 5DII | EF 24-105mm IS USM | EF 100-400mm L IS USM | 50mm 1.8mkII
22" Viewsonic | 32" Panasonic HDTV | PS3
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Caught in a web of deceit.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Madison, WI
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Originally Posted by dru 
For what it has done successfully for me, Diskwarrior *is* cheap.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: brooklyn ny
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"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Originally Posted by richardwigley
If Disk utility says it cant repair the disk (because its the boot disk) then u can do it from macosx install disks!!
Yes - have you checked that this is not the issue?
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Originally Posted by Sherman Homan
Charles is right, for the price of DW you can get a second hard drive and you already know that you need one anyway!
I didn't mean to imply that DiskWarrior wasn't worth the money. What I meant was that DiskWarrior is the only disk utility worth trusting your hard drive to, and if it's too expensive for you, the only viable alternative that's cheaper is to reformat the drive.
Unless, of course, Disk Utility is able to fix it when booting from the install discs. You should try that.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Totally agree, Disk Warrior has saved my butt countless times. It is one of the few "essential" programs in my tool box. I'm just saying that with the drop in hard drive prices, the increase of their size and the fact that you just gotta have some sort of backup, a second hard drive is a pretty good alternative.
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