>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.
Tough question. I have never seen DW run anything like this long. Step 1 usually runs quite quickly. Some of the following steps are the slow ones (and some are optional). My first instinct is to follow their advice. They are a small company and there is a chance that you were getting advice directly from Al himself, but I can't imagine step 1 running that long. I would have halted it and started over. Note that for this kind of program "application not responding" does not mean it is hung, just that it is busy with the drive. Never do other work on the computer while DW is running. That is asking for trouble. Running DW over USB is asking for trouble. You are sucking the data bi-directionally through a straw. USB is not good at 2-way traffic. I would halt DW, pop the drive case, and move the drive to an IDE or SATA connection. I know you can't do that with an iMac. Hopefully you have a friend with a tower model. I would use FireWire before I would use USB. Is your 1 TB drive really a 1 TB drive or 2 500 TB drives with a RAID controller? If it is a RAID you may be in very bad shape. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
