Re: Do you need a disk utility?
- From: tacit <tacitr@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:29:58 -0400
In article <2008091516454616807-yexxxx@sbellnet>,
Gary <yexxxx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My wife and I have now how our iMac's 24 about 9 months. Running
Leopard 10.5.4.
You will, sooner or later, have problems with your hard drive. Maybe not
now, maybe not tomorrow, but at some point you will.
Now, there are several ways you can handle this when it happens. Your
computer comes with Disk Utility. It can fix a wide range of minor
problems before they become major problems. It can not, however, fix
certain classes of major problems.
DiskWarrior, by Alsoft, can. It's a program I keep in my toolkit, for
the inevitable days when folks come to me with their hard drives
hopelessly scrambled and say things like "I had every photo I've ever
taken, my master's dissertation, all my tax returns, the manuscript of
my book, and the only recording of a rare performance by a long-dead
cello master on my hard drive. FIX IT!!!"
At this point, I generally tell them, "I might be able to fix it. No
guarantees, and I will charge you. Why don't you just erase the hard
drive and put all your stuff back from your backups?" Inevitably, they
say "Backups? I don't have any backups," and then I bust out DiskWarrior
and (usually) fix the problem.
Now, there are a couple of lessons in here.
The first is that you need backups. Seriously. Back up your files, ALL
THE TIME. Go to bed every night assuming that you will wake up the next
morning to find your hard disk crashed and all your files gone beyond
all hope of recovery. Behave accordingly. You'll never have a problem.
The second is that, yes, a disk repair program is nice to have. It can,
on many occasions, save your bacon; I've seen DiskWarrior pull off
repairs that border on the miraculous.
Nevertheless, if you don't back up your files, you don't own them.
You're just leasing them from Fate. And Fate has a habit of extracting
very high fees at the worst possible times.
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