Hi Jonathan and Rob, Alsoft's Disk Warrior can be run from a bootable cloned backup. It's just that running it from the DVD is not accessible because the system can't load VoiceOver from the DVD. However, if you've installed a version on your hard drive (either from the DVD or, more commonly, from the download) and have made a bootable clone with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! onto another drive, you should be able to run this application without problems. Since you won't be able to run these diagnoses on your MacBook hard drive, you attach a cloned hard drive, hold down the option key when your press the power on, and then after giving your system 20 or 30 seconds to start the boot, press either left or right arrow and then return. You want to have a version of Disk Warrior on your bootable clone, too, and then run the program from there.
Apple Genius bars used to keep Disk Warrior on a separate boot drive to run on suspect systems. I think that most diagnostic programs like Drive Genius and Disk Warrior that are run from the DVD won't be accessible, but if they're installed on your hard drive and are available on a bootable clone, they can be run with VoiceOver. (Actually, I'm not sure how much of Drive Genius is accessible, but I was told that at least some of this program was. I know that Disk Warrior has been usable with VoiceOver, but I haven't had to do this in a few years.) HTH. Cheers, Esther On 25 Apr 2013, at 16:44, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > This can sometimes occur with a bad disk partition that is being read from. > If this is the case, disk utility will probably not catch it,but disk warrior > (which I don't believe is accessible) will. Installing the OS onto an erased > hard disk partition did wonders for my system performance. But if you can > grab one of the more advanced disk utilities like the above mentioned Warrior > and have somebody sighted with you, you might be able to resolve without > re-installin > Best wishes, > > Jonathan > > > > On Apr 25, 2013, at 7:33 PM, Rob Bender wrote: > >> Hello. When I boot from My Mac Book HD, it takes almost 10 minutes to get >> to the log in screen and the log in is very slow after entering my password. >> I have a Superdooper backup which I used to restart the system, and >> everything works as it should. I repaired the disc and permissions on the >> Macbook HD and it still takes the same time to restart. I haven't found >> anything strange in the login items either. >> I also have several time machine backups. >> >> I haven't restored from a time machine backup yet, because I am afraid that >> I will still have the same problems afterwards. I have newer files on the >> MacBook HD that I want to back up before restoring from the Superdooper >> backup which appears to work well and do not want to corrupt the backup. >> There is probably something I am missing, but want to check before taking >> all the time to try various options. >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks in advance for your help. >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
