Anybody else have this DiskWarrior 4.4 issue in Mavericks 10.9.3?

My difficulty running DW 4.4 on Mavericks was due to user error. I had to pull up the Get Info window for each of the hard drives on my system and unclick the little box at the bottom under Sharing and Permission. The little box says Ignore Ownership. Unclick it if you want DW to optimize the directory.

Ah. It read to me (somewhat) that you were starting up to the DiskWarrior disk with the G5, not just viewing it from the desktop.

I haven't updated my Mac yet to 10.9.3. I'll have to give it a try today, now that I have some time and see what happens.

Everything updated now to 10.9.3, and all other third party apps on my system updated to their latest versions.

No problems anywhere. My original DiskWarrior 4.0 CD, and the 4.4 upgrade CD I created with their updater both appear on the desktop normally.

I have this same problem. The DiskWarrior DVD is not recognized in my iMac running 10.9.4. It shows up as a blank disk. Also, it will not boot the computer. Seems very strange. The same DVD is recognized in a laptop running Snow Leopard.

The Alsoft (publisher of DiskWarrior) tech suggested making a copy of the DVD. I cannot imagine how it will fix the problem. I have not had a chance to try it just yet.

This will sound a little drastic. But I was able to fix that issue. I sent emails and telephoned the Alsoft support desk in Texas. I read them two error codes i was getting when DW wouldn't recognize a disk I tried to repair.

They said the error codes indicated a UNIX problem at the root level of my HD. I was running DW from a remote HD linked via USB-3. The only solution they said was to wipe the HD (on the computer) clean and re-install a fresh OS. There goes the better part of a day.

But I did it and all is well. My iMac doesn't have a DVD slot, so I cannot boot from it. Alsoft told me the program can now simply be moved from the original DVD to any other hard drive by just dragging and dropping the DW icon. But that moved program must be placed in your Application folder or it won't work. i don't know if this would work with version earlier than 4.4.

Another thing I learned along the way. DW isn't really necessary with the latest Mac OS. Mavericks does its on file optimization automatically. At this point I don't use DW at all. Why. It only replicates a feature on the OS and makes hard drives work real hard and wear out sooner. Think about it. If you run DW once a week, that amounts to many millions of read & write accesses on your drive for nothing. Anyway, that is my view on the matter. Go simple. Live longer. Save money.🙂

Further DW 4.4 problems under Yosemite.

Regardless if I boot from a thumb drive containing DW, or the Rev. 1109 DVD on a mid 2011 iMac, the window pane for Scan/Rebuild only shows access to the DiskWarrior DVD and not the hard drive. Whilst the iMac is under AppleCare until June 2015, Apple Support do not recognize this as a problem with the hard drive and won't replace despite other problems including typing in email form self erasing, difficulty getting type in forum response boxes etc.

Any suggestions please wizards?

I have the same/similar issue - I can graph my hard drive (OS 10.10.1) using DW 4.4, but when I start from the DW CD, the only option to select in the Scan/Rebuild dropdown is the DW CD itself. Any suggestions on how I can solve this would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Are you saying that you are trying to boot up with the DW disk? As far as I know, Alsoft hasn't really supported booting from their disks for some time and successfully booting is not reliable; at the time, they suggested that DW be installed in the Utilities folder on a bootable clone of your system. Boot from that clone and run DW on your internal from there - I actually just now did that on my iMac running 10.9.5.