1) DiskWarrior 5.2 is compatible with High Sierra, Mojave and Catalina when rebuilding external Mac OS Extended disks. 2) Your external drives (including Time Machine Volumes) can be rebuilt as before. The latest version of DiskWarrior is 5.2 on Mac Informer. It is a perfect match for System Optimization in the System Tools category. The app is developed by Alsoft and its user rating is 4.8 out of 5. Today’s large disks can have large directories.
What's New in DiskWarrior?
DiskWarrior 5 is now the one utility program that solves all of the common problems you'll likely encounter on your Mac. Just look at these new features:
• 64-Bit
Today's large disks can have large directories. Using the latest 64-bit technology allows DiskWarrior 5 to handle even the largest disks.
• Ships on a bootable flash drive to repair your startup disk
Flash drives start up much faster than DVDs and can be updated as needed.
• Includes the new DiskWarrior Recovery Maker
New Macs have new OS X startup requirements. DiskWarrior Recovery Maker updates your DiskWarrior Recovery flash drive with the latest OS X.
• Runs from OS X Recovery (Recovery HD)
In an emergency, you no longer need a separate startup disk to run DiskWarrior on your startup disk unless your startup disk has partition table damage.
• Repairs partition table damage
Sometimes the damage is to the map that describes all your drive's partitions which makes all your partitions unavailable. DiskWarrior 5 can repair standard Mac GUID partition tables when started from the DiskWarrior Recovery flash drive.
• New architecture
Updated to use the newest OS X technologies while still supporting older PowerPC and Intel Macs that can no longer run the latest OS X.
• Significantly faster
For many disks, directory rebuilding is twice as fast as the previous version.
• Recovers more data from drives with hardware malfunctions
Recover your important files from most failing drives, possibly saving you thousands of dollars in professional recovery costs.
• Detects and repairs more disk problems than ever
The best is even better.
• New Directory Optimization Index
You can tell how efficient your directories are at a glance.
• Repairs Time Machine backup disks
Drives containing Time Machine back ups can have enormous directories that were often too large for DiskWarrior 4. The 64-bit memory addressing of DiskWarrior 5 allows these drives to be repaired or recovered.
• Plus a lot more
Purchase a new copy or upgrade now from older versions of DiskWarrior.
Please note that to install DiskWarrior 5, your Mac must start up in OS X 10.5.8 or later. This is a change from DiskWarrior 4 which supported installation on older versions of OS X. Please read the system requirements for DiskWarrior 5.
Using DiskWarrior 5.2 while started (booted) from High Sierra or Mojave.
• What you need to know (click here for the summary)
1) DiskWarrior 5.2 is compatible with macOS 10.13 High Sierra and macOS 10.14 Mojave when rebuilding external drives.
2) Mac OS Extended (HFS Plus) disks can be rebuilt as before.
3) The internal drives of Macs are automatically converted from Mac OS Extended (HFS Plus) to Apple File System (APFS) when upgrading to macOS 10.14 Mojave. Only internal SSD drives are converted to APFS by macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
4) External drives are not automatically converted to Apple File System (APFS). Your Mac OS Extended external drives can be rebuilt as before.
5) Apple File System (APFS) disks are recognized by DiskWarrior 5.2 but are not able to be rebuilt. Click here to learn how to identify an APFS disk.
6) DiskWarrior 5.2 now runs within macOS 10.14 Mojave Recovery.
7) The Preview application in DiskWarrior can now copy files to APFS disks when recovering data from a failing Mac OS Extended (HFS Plus) disk.
8) Numerous minor updates were made to accommodate additional security measures in macOS 10.14 Mojave.
9) In Mojave, Time Machine disks must now be rebuilt from macOS Recovery or the DiskWarrior Recovery flash drive.
The following applies only when running an installed copy of DiskWarrior and not when booted from the DiskWarrior flash drive or macOS Recovery.
10) Due to the ever enhancing security of macOS you might need to first 'Allow' the system extension portion of DiskWarrior to be loaded on your Mac. The first time you launch DiskWarrior 5.2, the system extension might be blocked. You will only need to allow the system extension once.
Follow the instructions in the System Extension Blocked message to allow the DiskWarrior system extension software to be loaded. Open the Security & Privacy System Preference and click the lock and then click the Allow button.
Quit DiskWarrior, reboot your Mac and launch DiskWarrior again.
• What's in the works
The next major release of DiskWarrior will include the ability to rebuild APFS disks. Apple has recently released the APFS format documentation. Our developers are now using that documentation to update DiskWarrior to be able to safely rebuild APFS disks.
Using DiskWarrior Recovery Maker 1.3.
• What you need to know
1) DiskWarrior Recovery Maker 1.3 is compatible with macOS 10.14 Mojave. You will need DiskWarrior 5.2 to run DiskWarrior from a recovery flash drive created while running macOS 10.14 Mojave. Creating a 10.14 recovery flash drive will not allow DiskWarrior to rebuild APFS disks.
2) You need to take an extra step to create a DiskWarrior startup recovery flash drive on an iMac Pro, a mid-2018 MacBook Pro, late-2018 MacBook Air or a late-2018 Mac mini. Those 4 Macs are equipped with Secure Boot. By default, Secure Boot does not allow starting up from an external disk such as a DiskWarrior recovery flash drive. Also by default, Secure Boot prevents the creation of a macOS startup disk except for those created using Apple's Installer.
To create and use a DiskWarrior Recovery disk for Macs with Secure Boot, it will be necessary to change the default Secure Boot and External Boot settings using the Startup Security Utility. The Secure Boot setting will need to be changed to Medium Security or No Security. Alsoft recommends Medium Security. Additionally, the External Boot setting will need to be changed to Allow booting from external media.
Please follow the instructions found on Apple's web site using the following link to make the needed changes.
Notice: Creation of, or start up from, a DiskWarrior recovery flash drive will fail if the above steps are not taken.
Didn't read all of the above? At least read this summary:
1) DiskWarrior 5.2 is compatible with High Sierra and Mojave when rebuilding external disks.
2) Your Mac OS Extended external drives can be rebuilt as before.
3) The internal drives of Macs are converted to APFS when upgrading to macOS 10.14 Mojave or macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
4) APFS disks are not able to be rebuilt. Click here to learn how to identify an APFS disk.
Diskwarrior 5.2 Download
5) In Mojave, Time Machine disks must now be rebuilt from macOS Recovery or the DiskWarrior Recovery Flash drive.
6) The next major release of DiskWarrior will include the ability to rebuild APFS disks.
Diskwarrior 5.2 Mojave
Updating to DiskWarrior 5.2 and DiskWarrior Recovery Maker 1.3.
1) A free updater is available for owners of DiskWarrior 5.0 and 5.1.
2) The updater will replace the DW partition on the DiskWarrior flash drive. The updated flash drive will contain DiskWarrior 5.2 and DiskWarrior Recovery Maker 1.3.
3) The updater will also update any installed copy of DiskWarrior 5.0 or 5.1 that is located in the Applications folder.
4) The updater will also update DiskWarrior 5.0 or 5.1 that is located on any attached DiskWarrior recovery flash drives that were created with earlier versions of DiskWarrior Recovery Maker.
5) Please click here to download the combo DiskWarrior 5.2 and DiskWarrior Recovery Maker 1.3 updater.
6) Please click hereto download the standalone DiskWarrior Recovery Maker 1.3 updater.