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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: 10.6 no longer boots.
Date: 11 Aug 2014 16:25:15 GMT
Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2014-08-11, Neill Massello <nmassello@yahoo.com> wrote:
> FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I take it you don't have something like Diskwarrior...  I've 
>> resurrected drives that wouldn't boot with DW before.
>> 
>> It's expensive, and a one-trick pony - but it does what it does very 
>> well.  Their tech support will even give you a password that will 
>> unlock hidden diagnostics within the program for specific needs.
>> 
>> I've heard of cases where it's run for hours, or even days to fix 
>> problems on a drive.
>
> Better to spend hours restoring from a backup than days on a recovery
> procedure that might not succeed. DiskWarrior is not a substitute for a
> backup. Nothing is.

Yep. With a solid backup strategy, recovery is always a simple "restore
from backup" away. : )

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