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Disk Warrior 4.4 running for 10 days!!

Hi Guys,


Please let me know if you can help. I apologise in advance for the lengthy message it contains all my relevant information, which may point to a solution.


My 10 day Dilemma: Last weekSunday (today is Wednesday) whilst my Lacie 1 tb hardrive was on I was currently editing a video piece on my Mac book pro Final cut version 7 as normal. My 1 tb drive had about 300gb free.

The Lacie drive started experiencing difficulties whilst I was backing up my work on Apple’s Time Machine function, it wouldn’t boot the hardrive as an option on my computer. It would show the hardrive only in Macs “Disk Utility”

I tried a variety of options turning on and off the computer and hardrive, changing power cables, fire wire cables. I also checked the Lacie Hardrive on a Pc and it booted so this gave me a feeling that it at least could be repaired on Disk Utility on my Mac.

I followed a few online examples in which I changed the casing on my Lacie 1 tb with another identical1 tb drive. After changing casing on the drives the hardrive, which previously was un readable, was still unreadable by my mac book pro and the one that worked still was readable.


Last week Monday I started Disk warrior 4.4 on Mac it has been running for nearly 10! Full days and is still going. Even though I cannot click on the disk warrior application it has the spinning beach ball, but the numbers of Disk Malfunctions are painfullyslowly climbing.


I don’t know how long it has to go but I am thinking to cancel and seek other methods.


I have read on this site andon other forums some People using it online said it could take between

1 – 4 days. I have seen others going on 3 weeks ??

I am at 10 days.


The files are important and contain client files, the capture files of a project I was working on. Most of the finished files are backed up but there are files such as digitised footage for projects I was in the process of working on. I have no other way to retrieve those files as the only place they exist is on this drive.


Questions I would like yourhelp on please:

What would the damage be to my external drive if I were to cancel during step 5 of Disk Warrior?

As my External drive was previously bootable on a pc (which I checked before starting disk warrior 10 daysago) I am thinking to maybe cancel disk warrior try booting on the pc and connecting another drive to copy the files over. Do you think this would work?

Has anybody ever been in a similar positions in which Step 5 has hanged for so long, with a similar amountof Disk Malfunctions I have and it actually turned out for Drive to be fixed,repaired and work smoothly afterwards?

My 10-day Disk warriorcurrent readings:

Rebuilding directory / Step5 Locating directory data


Speed reduced by disk malfunctions 55,149

I would really appreciateyour help and assistance guys?


FC

MAC BOOK PRO 2.4GHZ C2D 4GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.5.8), LACIE EXTdrive 500GB ,1 X2 Tbs

Posted on Nov 16, 2011 6:50 AM

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Posted on Nov 16, 2011 9:49 AM

I'd let it go, it depends how bad the drive is, but DW tries really really hard to get as much as possible from the drive.


You could quit DW if you wish, it's only reading the drive, but you'd lose 10 days, which is already 3 times longer than my longest.


And the reason DW doesn't respond is because it would take much longer to do if it checked in at home every second. 🙂

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Nov 16, 2011 9:49 AM in response to Fat Chocolate

I'd let it go, it depends how bad the drive is, but DW tries really really hard to get as much as possible from the drive.


You could quit DW if you wish, it's only reading the drive, but you'd lose 10 days, which is already 3 times longer than my longest.


And the reason DW doesn't respond is because it would take much longer to do if it checked in at home every second. 🙂

Nov 16, 2011 12:03 PM in response to BDAqua

Thanks BD Aqua , i 'm in two minds in regards to stopping it or coninuing on...Its been running for 10 days in which i havent been able to use my mac or doing anything really so i dont wanna waste those 10 days... but at the same time i do need my mac back as i have work to finish.... Dilema ... I have been looking in to a data retrival specialist. A few online resources have said that letting Disk Warrior run that long could be doing more damage.... how true is this ?


I will give it till morning and see how much progress it make



Kind regards


FC

Nov 16, 2011 12:18 PM in response to Fat Chocolate

A few online resources have said that letting Disk Warrior run that long could be doing more damage.... how true is this ?

It's always possible that just running the drive could hurt, no way to even guess the likelihood, there's even a slighter chance that running longer could help it.


On some disks I've seen DW seemingly stall on a portion of the Disk for a couple of days on a bad spot, then suddenly zip through the rest, but it sounds that your Disk has quite severe problems, & I'd consider professional Disk Recovery though it generally runs $500-$600+

Disk Warrior 4.4 running for 10 days!!

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