![]() ![]() I had to wait 15 plus hours for them to mail me a USB drive with the software on it. They won’t just let you buy it and download it. I found my old serial number and bought an $79 upgrade (cha ching). ![]() ![]() I decided to try Disk Warrior and give it one last try before I reformatted the whole drive. Then yesterday I opened Disk Drill once again, and it wanted to do an update. I would get that sick feeling all over again. I wouldn’t think about it again until I would find an image in Lightroom and see that the file was missing. Never felt it was any better than TechTools Pro. I used to own an older copy before a while back. I researched the net, and several folks said that Disk Warrior, by Alsoft had helped them in impossible situations. I consulted more people I knew everyone told me just format the drive and enjoy the “new” 6TB of storage. Apparently, the file structure was too badly mangled and nothing was going to work. TechTools Pro wasn’t able to do much of anything. ![]() Disk Drill kept timing out or getting stuck. After returning in March, I retried both TechTools Pro 9 and Disk Drill again. I put all this off till I returned in late March. So I was encouraged there were still images on the disk! But I wasn’t getting the right ones off. What was worse was, none of the recovered image were the ones I didn’t have backed up. It found the disk and was able to recover around a thousand images before timing out or getting stuck. I bought Disk Drill (cha ching), it worked a little better. Remember, we are talking over a year’s worth of images mixed in with over 300 thousand images! Piet Van den Eynde suggested I try Disk Drill and at least try to rescue as many photos as I could. TechTools Pro couldn’t even find any old files to rescue. They told me there was no way to save it. I even talked with their tech support team. I quickly upgraded my TechTools Pro to version 9 (cha ching sound effect). I thought I had might have a chance to save my images, if I could just get to them! But TechTools Pro would not even mount. I quickly opened TechTools Pro and I could see the drive was full. But the drive volume’s disk directory was badly damaged. But God smiled on me, and the reformatting failed for no apparent reason. But these photos were the only copy, they were the backup.Īs soon as it started formatting, I knew I had made a mistake. This drive had close to a year’s worth of photos that were a backup of the failed drive. But in my haste and with my mind already with my mother I selected the wrong drive. A day before, I had another drive fail, and I thought I was reformatting that drive. In that case, you should contact Alsoft Sales to order an updated DVD.Last April, two days before I left to go back to the USA to be with my dying mother, I tried to reformat my main backup drive with my complete library of images on it. If your Mac fails to start up from the DiskWarrior DVD, it's likely the version of Mac OS X on the DVD does not support your newer Mac. If your wireless mouse is not working in the Startup Manager, use the right- or left-arrow keys to choose the DVD, and then press the "Return" key to continue starting up. This will bring up the Startup Manager which will allow you to choose the DVD as a startup disk. Instead of pressing the "C" key immediately upon start up (step 3 above), press the "Option" key. Some newer Macs with wireless keyboards have timing issues when starting up from any DVD.
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