Alsoft DiskWarrior - 4.0 Installation Instructions
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1. DiskWarrior 4 3 Installation Instructions You must be running Max OS X version 10 3 9 or later to install DiskWarrior 4 3 Additionally you must be logged into an administrator account Administrator accounts are those that are labeled Admin in the Accounts System Preference Installing from the DiskWarrior Disc either CD or DVD 1 Insert the DiskWarrior disc into your CD DVD drive 2 Drag to the trash any existing copy of DiskWarrior you have installed You may need to restart in order to empty the trash 3 Select the DiskWarrior icon the icon is a drive with a knight s helmet found in the upper left corner of the DiskWarrior disc window and drag it to your hard disk Alsoft recommends that DiskWarrior reside in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder When installing under Mac OS X 10 4 or earlier the actual location of the DiskWarrior application is important Because DiskWarrior is a sophisticated disk utility it runs into a limitation of a portion of the Mac OS needed by DiskWarrior but not by most applications Due to this limitation the path the names of the enclosing folders all the way to the top level of the disk cannot contain certain characters The actual list of allowable and non allowable characters is too large to list so it s best if the path contains only the letters A Z the digits 0 9 and spaces For example Applications Utilities DiskWarrior is a good path while Applications Utilities DiskWarrior Disk2. Warrior is a bad path because of the f character 4 To run DiskWarrior from your hard disk simply double click the DiskWarrior icon In order to run DiskWarrior you must be started from Mac OS X 10 3 9 or later Installing the DiskWarrior you received via download purchase 1 Open the DiskWarrior dmg file you received via download This will cause the disk image named DiskWarrior to appear on your desktop 2 Drag to the trash any existing copy of DiskWarrior you have installed You may need to restart in order to empty the trash 3 Select the DiskWarrior icon the icon is a drive with a knight s helmet found in the upper left corner of the disk image window and drag it to your hard disk Alsoft recommends that DiskWarrior reside in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder When installing under Mac OS X 10 4 or earlier the actual location of the DiskWarrior application is important Because DiskWarrior is a sophisticated disk utility it runs into a limitation of a portion of the Mac OS needed by DiskWarrior but not by most applications Due to this limitation the path the names of the enclosing folders all the way to the top level of the disk cannot contain certain characters The actual list of allowable and non allowable characters is too large to list so it s best if the path contains only the letters A Z the digits 0 9 and spaces For example Applications Utilities DiskWarrior is a good path while Applications Ut
3. ilities DiskWarrior DiskWarrior is a bad path because of the f character 4 To run DiskWarrior from your hard disk simply double click the DiskWarrior icon In order to run DiskWarrior you must be started from Mac OS X 10 3 9 or later Copyright 2006 2008 2011 Alsoft Inc All rights reserved
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