In many cases, DiskWarrior is able to replace a damaged volume’s problematic directory with the new repaired directory that it creates. I then used SuperDuper to make a complete clone of this volume - the read-only volume reconstructed by DiskWarrior - to another external hard drive. It looked like everything was in order, and it contained everything up to the point where I started seeing problems. It took a long time (three or four hours, perhaps), but DiskWarrior was able to create a new directory for my internal startup drive and mount it as a read-only volume. From this, I ran DiskWarrior against my internal drive. I rebooted from an external hard drive, which was a clone of my internal hard drive made using SuperDuper. Disk Utility reported that the disk was damaged in a way that it could not repair. I ran Disk Utility and attempted to verify the MacBook Pro’s internal hard disk. So, I forced the machine to shut down and rebooted from my Snow Leopard installation disc. ![]() I gave it some time but the login screen didn’t appear. So I saved everything that was open and rebooted. (I’d last used the machine on the airplane on my way home the night before. These things were all taking 30 seconds or longer. When I woke the machine up from sleep, everything was terribly slow. Thursday 18 February was my first day back at home for a normal day of work. ![]() I was on vacation for a few days with my wife immediately after Macworld Expo. So far as I can tell, I didn’t lose a single byte of data. ![]() Three weeks ago the hard drive in my MacBook Pro went bad. An Ode to DiskWarrior, SuperDuper, and Dropbox Monday, 15 March 2010
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