Installing the DiskWarrior you received via download purchase: Hi Alan,
Did you drag the DW 4.3 Application from Utilities into the Trash and empty the trash & restart your Mac before trying to install v.4.4? Installing the DiskWarrior you received via download purchase: 1) Open the 'DiskWarrior.dmg' file you received via download. This will cause the disk image named 'DiskWarrior' to appear on your desktop. 2) Drag to the trash any existing copy of DiskWarrior you have installed. You may need to restart in order to empty the trash. 3) Select the DiskWarrior icon (the icon is a drive with a knight's helmet) found in the upper left corner of the disk image window and drag it to your hard disk. Alsoft recommends that DiskWarrior reside in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder. 4) To run DiskWarrior from your hard disk, simply double-click the DiskWarrior icon. In order to run DiskWarrior, you must be started from Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later. Cheers, Ronni 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage > On 24 Nov 2014, at 12:04 pm, Alan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >
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