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That's probably not the answer on how to fix partitions, but that's how I solved this. I made a clean installation on a USB stick and run DiskWarrior and Drive Genius, none of them could fix partitions.

I could recover or backup my files using, but there was no need since it's my new macbook and I didn't have much files there. I tried to run DiskWarrior from terminal but it gave me an error. Note: that Disk Utility wasn't able to recover partitions. Somehow it sees my Ethernet cable and doesn't give error.

#Drive genius diskwarrior mac os x#

I was able to boot from this USB stick into Recovery Mode and from there I can reinstall Mac Os X Mavericks. Then I used the application under Windows and burned DMG on my USB stick. I asked a friend with latest Mavericks(which I had too) to make a Recovery USB using and make a DMG file from it using Disk Utility and send me over internet. Also tried some Windows third party applications which also failed. I could boot Windows recovery console and tried TestDisk which failed to write something to HFS+.

#Drive genius diskwarrior install#

It can't boot from OS X Lion install DVD. Install Os To Usb How To Install Diskwarrior On Usb Macbook pro 2012 can't boot from bootable DVD to use DiskWarrior, Drive Genius or similar. Windows had changed the HD partition map from GUID Partition Table(GPD) to MBR. Cf for a great example of it saving important data. It costs a bit but has a very good reputation and saved many damaged hard drives. In reality, DiskWarrior is a disk repair tool capable of fixing damaged HFS and HFS+ directories. In fact, the developers shouldn’t even call DiskWarrior a data recovery tool. Your best bet is using a disk repair program such as DiskWarrior. There’s no sugar-coating it: DiskWarrior’s data recovery performance is abysmal. I am not even sure it can correctly repair a boot hard drive. You could plug the hard drive in another Mac (as a secondary drive, not a boot one) and see what Disk Utility tells you (press command-space then type Disk Utility to launch it) about it but it's not guaranteed to help you much. There have been a handful of mild trojans over the course of the last decade.There is not much you can do with a stock Mac to fix the hard drive. The idea that Macs are magically immune needs to die, but so does the notion that there’s any kind of active or prevalent threat. You just need to disable Flash and Java (seeing as that’s how the last few attacks occurred - and it is only a few over several years). (And no, Docchris, you don’t need anti-virus on a Mac (anyone who says otherwise is selling something). Filesystem corruption (like whole system crashes) just shouldn’t happen on a modern system and should not be considered normal. Quite frankly, if you’re running into filesystem consistency issues with any regularity, then you have other much deeper problems. There’s still room for third party products, but 99% of the time the built-in is all you need. None of them know how to deal with a thin-provisioned volume, and as BeyondRAID has hooks into the filesystem, I’d be wary of the changes they make.Īnd Disk Utility is a fine filesystem check - very much akin to fsck on Linux or chkdisk on Windows. such as Alsoft's DiskWarrior (my personal favorite), MicroMat's TechTool Pro, or Prosoft's Drive Genius, might be able to repair the damage. In general, I’d stay away from a Drobo with disk utilities.