Any Disk Warrior users in Wamug? I have Disk Warrior 4.3 on disk and as a soft copy on a good iMac in Utilities. The internal HD on my 2009 iMac is faulty. I intended to do a disk repair with Disk Warrior using Firewire and Target Mode. Both Macs have Mavericks 10.9.5 installed. I downloaded the update for DW ver 4.4 but cannot install it.
I attempted to use DW 4.3 but received the message “Directory cannot be rebuilt. Disk is a newer version than Disk Warrior”. Not unexpected, so back to trying to get 4.4 working. The general message on opening the .dmg file states: To install update need - (1) original DW disk (2) admin privileges (3) 3.5 GB disk space (4) a blank CD-R or DVD-R. I opted to “continue” and the install process got to accepting licence agreement then the message “No recordable devices were found. You may connect one via Firewire or USB and press Rescan, or quit." I inserted a 16GB thumb drive but no change to the messages. I reformatted thumb drive to Mac OS extended (journaled) and with GUID partition table. Still no progress. Tried again with DW 4.3 copied to the USB drive. Still no progress. Bought a new 1TB USB 3 hard drive and formatted it as above. Still no progress. Found that information on the Alsoft (DW) website is confusing and the FAQs are Dorothy Dixers. The Update page includes the following information: "Uses your original 4.0-4.3 disc to create a new startup disc containing DiskWarrior 4 version 4.4. The new disc will only start up the same Mac models as the original disc.” The last sentence is alarming. Does it mean Mac OS version? Any advice on how to install the update? Regards, Alan Alan Smith Late 2012 iMac 27" Intel Quad Core i5 Fusion 3.2GHz 8G RAM - OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks Late 2009 iMac 21.5" Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
