It cannot operate on the partition from which it is booted. So either need to install it to another bootable partition or need to create a live CD/DVD from which to run it -> http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/details6.html



Disk Warrior 4

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The Essential Mac Disk Utility

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does it work with osx86 hackintoshs?

Just released today (maybe 2 hours ago). Not sure anyone has bought a copy and tried it. Should happen in the next week or so.

Just noticed at the brokenstones place 2 secs ago

Its been added to the demon.

Got it about 20 minutes ago elsewhere, but haven't tried it yet.

No i havent tried it yet myself hand tool to have tho huh

Well, tried it.

Wouldn't process my boot partition because it is the boot partition.

Wouldn't process my other partition because it was busy. I think that is a Spotlight thing and I tried to disable Spotlight via Terminal, but it wouldn't disable:
(sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/(name-of-partition)

Processed my data partitition. Found minor errors but wanted to "fix" my boot blocks!! I stopped it and said no way!

Going to need a boot CD/DVD to process bootable drives and then it is going to want to fix boot blocks as a part of the repair. Don't think you can accept b-tree repairs and not boot blocks - so, net is you can't use it to repair anything (on a Hackintosh).

it's OK to run DiskWarrior over non-booting volumes, even on an iHack.

So has someone conjured up a way to repair the boot entry after one has run DW over a booting volume .. ? I did this yesterday on one of my external boot volumes which was corrupted because I did not know about this issue, and have not been able to get it back up running. I could restore the drive with Norton Ghost, no problem, but it would come in more handy to do it from the Macintosh side.

Any hackint0sh solution would be greatly appreciated

Cheers,
Bugs

Firstly, before using DW, you must do a backup copy of the kernel and after using it, to copy the backup kernel, back to the root of your system disk, using a bootable media.

that does not suffice.

I tried DW after I included it in Kismus Live DVD and DW erased my mach_kernel. I copied a backup of mach_kernel, back into the system partition root (with Kismus), then rebooted from the system and it worked.

Disk Warrior has saved my data (life) before, I recommend you buy it

It saved my entire music collection recently, along with several gigs of DV video from my camera and all my movies from itunes. It is definitely worth the money.

So how do you restore the bootloader after running diskwarrior on a booting drive in a hackintosh? i ran diskwarrior and now osx wont boot... also, is there a way to repair in diskwarrior without touching the "boot blocks" ??

2 b honest: I had to restore from Windows using Norton Ghost, copying my backup partition back ..

If you have important data on there, boot from another partition and back everything up.

Good luck!

Sorry to necro this but I just borrowed DiskWarrior 4 from a friend.

After reading this thread I'm glad i couldn't get it to boot on my hackintosh.

Should I be able to boot from the CD at all, can anyone else boot from it on a PC? I guess not, those of you who ran it on your boot drive must have been running it from another OSX partition?

Unless you can create your own bootable disk, a hackintosh will not be able to boot from a regular bootable disk useable by a real Mac.