I'm using Alsoft's DiskWarrior 4.1.1 on a WD 1 TB USB hard drive,
connected to a 2 GHz iMac G5 with 2 GB RAM.
DiskWarrior has now been on for about 48 hours.
Alsoft's support did not answer my questions.
If you have experience with DiskWarrior, what's your opinion:
1. Is DiskWarrior still running?
2. What is the maximum time before a user should give up. I would like
to know some idea of that. Is it 3 days? A week? A month? What?
Alsoft wants me to stop all other applications, but I have only one
computer, and they don't give me any idea of the time involved in the
process. I didn't ask for, as they said, "...the exact duration...". I
asked for a very rough idea: "Is it 3 days? A week? A month? What?"
My understanding of the Mac OS is that if an application is running
but not active, there's not a big hit to the resources of an active
application. Therefore, I'm not "...exponentially slowing down the
process." Am I correct in this?
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My question to Alsoft's support:
Question_or_Problem: Console HangReporter reads:
2009-05-07-112345-DiskWarrior.hang
Looking at the DiskWarrior window, the "barber pole" is still turning
at Step 1. Is DiskWarrior hung or is it working? Is there a way to
know for sure?
Additionally: The Finder is not responding, and I tried to Re-Launch
it, but it didn't work. However, Firefox, Mail, and Console seem to
be working normally. I'm reluctant to reboot IF DiskWarrior is
running okay, as I'm working on a 1TB disk, and DiskWarrior has been
running for about 17 hours. Support indicates that it can take a long
time to do a disk this large, but gives no indication what the
maximum time is, before a user should give up. I would like to know
some idea of that. Is it 3 days? A week? A month? What?
Alsoft's Answer:
As I requested yesterday, please run DiskWarrior without any other
applications running.
As I stated yesterday, there are two many variables involved here to
give you the exact duration of the rebuilding process. If you want your
files back, you will need to allow DiskWarrior to run to completion.
I can tell you, however, that as you continue to run other applications
while DiskWarrior is working, that you are exponentially slowing down
the process.
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