I wouldn't think of "Disk Utility" as liar, liar, liar just that it has done the best that it is able to do, and the drive "should" work know.
As I mentioned before, Disk Warrior and TTP and just able to do more and resolve more problems. cjc PS I hope this discussion is actually helping people and we aren't just rambling? On 22/02/2011, at 3:46 AM, Walter Sheluk wrote: > On 11-02-21 3:07 AM, Christopher Collins wrote: >> To the best of my knowledge, Disk Warrior is able to do a bit more to try >> and repair the disk. Whereas "Repair Disk" is fairly minimal. > Thanks cjc. > > That has been my personal conclusion from some ( very scientific ) testing. > For example, when my external firewire drives refuse to boot i have tried > using Apple's Disk Utility to " repair disk " and it says something like OK > disk repaired but still the said drive will not boot. Then applying > DiskWarrior to the problem external drive and that resolves the issue. So i > say : Apple Disk Utility you are a liar!liar!liar! ;-) > > (iMac 2009 edition, MacOS10.6.6) > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
