![]() Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. ![]() If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger and Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. Or you could use Disk Utility to repair your drive:īoot from your OS X Installer disc. You could also use a USB flash drive if it's 8 GB or larger. you have an external drive you can use, then install OS X on it, put the DW application on the drive, then boot from the external drive. So, at least in my humble opinion, DiskWarrior is the one to get if you’re only going to get one.ĭisk Utility. And, Drive Genius has many other disk analysis and maintenance options not available in the others, including Find Duplicates, Clone, Defragment, and Malware Scan to name a few.ĭiskWarrior is a one-trick pony, but that pony can often repair damaged hard (or solid-state) disks when other apps can’t. If it works, you’ve saved time and money. Disk Utility is faster, easier, and free. (For what it’s worth, all three have performed flawlessly since their repair).ĭoes that mean you shouldn’t try Disk Utility’s First Aid or buy Drive Genius? Absolutely not. In the past four months, I have had three disks failures that Disk Utility and Drive Genius could not repair but that DiskWarrior could. The big benefit was that I didn’t lose half a day erasing and restoring disks and got back to work in half an hour instead of half a day. DiskWarrior succeeded after both others failed… Instead, I tried DiskWarrior, which repaired the disk damage after rebuilding and replacing the drive’s directories, all in around 30 minutes. Then, DiskWarrior Fixed It (Three Times)! ‘The Other Drobo’ is either not formatted or is a system owned drive that should not be used.” Note that both the Repair and Rebuild options are grayed out and unavailable.Īt this point, it seemed my only option was to erase (reformat) the recalcitrant disks. So I tried my next line of defense, Drive Genius… Drive Genius Failed, Tooĭrive Genius had a different alert I also don’t recall seeing before: Drive Genius can’t mount “The Other Drobo.”Ĭannot Mount Drive. Back up the disk and reformat it as soon as you can.” “macOS can’t repair the disk “The Other Drobo.”You can still open or copy files on the disk, but you can’t save changes to files on the disk. Disk Utility Failedįirst, Disk Utility displayed an alert I don’t remember ever seeing before: macOS can’t repair the disk “The Other Drobo.” Until recently, I’d have told you it was a three-way tie, with each of the three resolving roughly one-third of my disk issues over time. But, since the beginning of this year I’ve had three disk failures only one of these three apps could repair. ![]() That alone is reason enough to try it first. For another thing, who knows more about repairing your boot disk than Apple? And, for another ‘nother thing, it’s free (and you know how much I love free).īut when First Aid fails, as it sometimes does, I turn to a pair of third-party tools. When a disk fails or acts wonky-by not mounting when it should, or by disappearing from the desktop when it shouldn’t-the first thing I try is Disk Utility’s First Aid.įor one thing, it’s the only one of the three that doesn’t require you boot from a different disk to repair your startup disk (macOS High Sierra only).
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