On 7/5/04, Charles Riggs wrote:
>
> I bought DW sometime back and found that it worked well in cleaning
>things up, but have had an ongoing intermittent problem with it. When I
>use the disk to start up from, sometimes the disk simply sits and spins
>in the player, running up and down in speed, without ever really kicking
>into action.
> I contacted DW about this when it first occurred and they
>recommended cleaning the player, which I did and it worked to speed
>things up. But then I had to replace the hard drive and the last time I
>tried DW a week ago the spin-up but no funtion problem was back.
> No other disk does this so I'm stumped. Is it a software problem in
>the iMac, or hardware in the player, or is the DISK that's not running
>correctly? I don't have another machine in which to run it to find out.
>I tend to suspect the CD since only this one does it, and would send it
>back to DW for replacement if I thought it was that.
> Anyone have ideas about why the disk/machine are doing this? Is it
>a player problem or what?
Is this the OS 9 or the OS X version? On the OS 9 version, there are
multiple system folders on the CD (not sure how DiskWarrior manages to do
it, but...), and (my guess is) DW starts from one system, tries to start
up with that, and if it won't, goes on to the next OS version and tries
again. If that is indeed how DW's CD does it, that would explain the
delay (especially if one part of the disk where one OS version sits had a
scratch or such).
Not sure if the Mac OS X.? version of the CD also has multiple versions
or not, since I haven't ordered mine - *yet*! Others can vouch for that
version of the CD.
But while I was still running only under Mac OS 9.x, DiskWarrior quickly
became my utility of choice. I too had problems with Norton Utilities
(Disk Doctor, DiskLight, and other of their kind), but fortunately for
me, I didn't lose major data or a drive contents to NU.
My .02,
Jim Rohde
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in
human history....
with the possible exception of handguns and Irish whiskey.
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