[CGUYS] DiskWarrior Info Wanted
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? = 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. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] DiskWarrior Info Wanted
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/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] DiskWarrior Info Wanted
You should shut down all other applications/ processes. db Alvin Auerbach wrote: 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? = 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. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] DiskWarrior Info Wanted
Thanks Tom and db, for your advice. My Alsoft advice was from Marc Moorash, Alsoft Technical Support. I have no idea about what's in the drive, and I don't want to open it, as it belongs to a friend of mine, not to me. I will re-boot the iMac, and let my e-mail pile up on Verizon's server, and run only DiskWarrior. If it doesn't come out of Step 1 by Monday morning, I'll give the drive back to my friend. He may then need to just reformat and lose the data that's on it. Ah, wait! I forgot about my lil' netbook, which I use only for iTunes with my audio system! I'll turn on the wifi on my router (normally off) and get my e-mail as web mail! Alvin On May 8, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: 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/ ** *
