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Disk warrior

help, I had been having some problems with Microsoft Office
and took it to the Mac genius bar. They told me i have a corrupted disk directory and need to run Disk Warrior. I can open and run emails and the previous problems have resolved

My computer is less than a year old, but evidently this is not covered under warrenty.

what is the earlier version of Disk warrior that will work with OS X 10.3.9?
low on funds and i need to borrow the CD.

Also is Disk Warrior easy to run

help appreciated

Christina

book G4, Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Posted on Mar 29, 2006 10:44 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 29, 2006 10:49 AM in response to tangoette

First, Try using Disk Utility to repair your startup disk (hard drive) as shown in Dr.Smokes Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption. It may fix your problem. Or did they already do that at the genius bar?

Cheers!
DALE

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Mar 29, 2006 12:33 PM in response to Dale Weisshaar

hi dale
I did that. And they did it again at the genius bar.
But when they did disk repair from an external hard drive,
that's when the problem showed up.

The genius said not to use the lastest verion of Disk Warrior
for Tiger and he also said he thought it might work, but wasn't sure

Do you know which earlier version of Disk Warrior would work on OS X 10.3.9?I have a friend with an older MAC, I think still OS X 10 and she has Disk Warrior. Would it hurt to try it?

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Answer 3

Mar 29, 2006 12:42 PM in response to tangoette

Disk Warrior Ver 3 works with OS 10.3.9

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tangoette Author

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Mar 29, 2006 12:51 PM in response to Frank Abramonte1

thanks
would an earlier version of Disk Warrior, like 2.01, work
with OS X 10.3.9?

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Answer 5

Mar 29, 2006 1:15 PM in response to tangoette

No, don't use version 2.0.2, I checked DiskWarrior's site and it looks like version 2.0 is for OS 7.1 to OS9.

I believe the newest version 3.0.3 will work on 10.3.9 (only 10.3.9 no earlier versions of Panther) and Tiger. So if you upgrade to Tiger that CD will still work. Check with Alsoft (makers of DW) to be sure though. Get the CD if you buy it, not the download, so you can bootup on the disk.

Cheers!
DALE

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tangoette Author

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Mar 29, 2006 1:33 PM in response to Dale Weisshaar

hi dale,
Thanks for the info on 3.0.3
However do you think is there is an earliest version of Disk Warrior is
that would work on OS X 10.3.9?

I tried to find the info on the DW site but couldn't.

My friend has an earlier CD she can lend me.

Thank you
christina

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Answer 7

Mar 29, 2006 1:36 PM in response to tangoette

I believe it has to be at least version 3.0.

Cheers!
DALE

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tangoette Author

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Mar 29, 2006 1:40 PM in response to Dale Weisshaar

thanks dale!

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Answer 9

Mar 29, 2006 3:29 PM in response to tangoette

DiskWarrior version 3.01 and 3.03 will ron under 10.3.9

george

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Answer 10

Mar 29, 2006 3:41 PM in response to George Orville

Thanks for clarifying that George!
DALE

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Mar 29, 2006 5:10 PM in response to George Orville

And so will v. 3.0.2.

DiskWarrior 1.0 through 2.1.1 are OS 8 and 9 native versions.

3.0 was the first OS X-native (Jaguar only) version of DiskWarrior. It was not compatible with Panther-formatted disks.

3.0.1 was the first Panther-compatible version, and was faster than 3.0.

3.0.2 incorporated changes that made a Japanese version possible. 3.0.2 is not compatible with Tiger-formatted disks.

3.0.3 is the first Tiger-compatible version. It is also backward-compatible with Panther- and Jaguar-formatted disks and OS 9-formatted disks.

To rebuild the directory on a Panther-formatted hard drive, you need a DiskWarrior 3.0.1, 3.0.2, or 3.0.3 CD.

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Mar 30, 2006 4:07 PM in response to eww

thanks so much, very helpful
I really appreciate.

christina

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