MrUnknown Posted December 25, 2007 Share Posted December 25, 2007 Hackint0sh Patcher for DiskWarrior 4 by Alsoft http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior For many years, DiskWarrior has been the premier Macintosh utility to repair disk drive directory structures and the files in them. If Disk Utility cannot repair your drive, then DiskWarrior can probably do the job. Unfortunately, on a Hackint0sh, DiskWarrior sees the MBR partition scheme as something that needs to be repaired. Allowing DiskWarrior to make this repair would render the Hackint0sh unbootable. In addition, DiskWarrior has no feature to allow the user to select which repairs he wishes to make. The user can choose to make all repairs or no repairs. This patch to DiskWarrior only prevents it from repairing the MBR partition scheme used on a Hackint0sh. According to Alsoft, DiskWarrior 4 has some inherent restrictions: • It cannot repair the booted volume. The same restriction as Disk Utility. • It cannot repair the volume on which the running DiskWarrior application is located. Versions 4.0(40) and 4.0(41) have a restriction with Leopard (version 4.1(42) is OK with Leopard) • Alsoft highly recommends that DiskWarrior should not be run from a booted Leopard volume to make repairs. DiskWarrior can repair Leopard volumes. Therefore, DiskWarrior should be run from a separate booted volume which is not the target for the repair. For versions 4.0(40) and 4.0(41), this should be a Tiger volume, not a Leopard volume. If the patcher is ever updated, links to the new version will be posted here. Comments should be posted in this thread. Bugs may be sent in a PM to MrUnknown. The patcher comes with no warranties. Use it at your own risk. The patch is known to work on DiskWarrior 4 -- v4.0(40), v4.0(41) and v4.1(42). It may or may not work for newer versions. Update: new version (1.02) of patcher can handle DiskWarrior 4 -- v4.0(40), v4.0(41) and v4.1(v42). Download it here: http://www.mediafire.com/?9pl1ije3ldx http://rapidshare.com/files/90507514/DWpatch102.zip.html . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrUnknown Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 The DiskWarrior patcher has been updated to work with DiskWarrior 4.0 v40 and v41. See first posting above. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxman Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Perfect! With v 4.0 works this patcher ok , but with DW 4.1 no sucsess... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrUnknown Posted February 9, 2008 Author Share Posted February 9, 2008 Perfect! With v 4.0 works this patcher ok , but with DW 4.1 no sucsess... The patcher has been updated to v1.02 and works with the following versions of DiskWarrior: DW v4.0(40) DW v4.0(41) DW v4.1(42) See first posting for links. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallonKrd Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Thanks for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandar Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Yes, this was ticket for me! I want to add that it also worked for me on a GUID partition. Worked perfectly.. no problems. If anyone knows how to edit a native bootable cd with this patch, I'd be grateful. Pandar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 wow cool thnx MrUnknown .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmegaAvenger Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 As a side note, you can use Disk Warrior to check and repair the disks of "real" macs from a hackintosh. Thats one reason I made one at work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddrdark Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 my scheme partition is GUID, do I need the patch anyway? thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mragonias Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I tried and doesn't work, and i have now a blinking cursor, and i think it's imposble to repair it . I had tried fdisk to activate the partition and install again pc_efi with no results. I think i have to install all again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mragonias Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 I solved it!!! only with this patch: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry890420 Now i have again Leopard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppa206 Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 New version of Diskwarrior is out, version 4.1.1. Any word on a patch for it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey_@@ Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 I'm trying to install DiskWarrior into my Hack (GPT disk) but I'm getting the following message: The problem is that there is NO "Ignore ownership on this volume" option when I do this procedure over my Mac disk... Any tips on how can I install it? TIA, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppa206 Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 I'm trying to install DiskWarrior into my Hack (GPT disk) but I'm getting the following message: The problem is that there is NO "Ignore ownership on this volume" option when I do this procedure over my Mac disk... Any tips on how can I install it? TIA, You ARE running this from a different startup disk, correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digilawyer Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 Hackint0sh Patcher for DiskWarrior 4 by Alsoft http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior Unfortunately, on a Hackint0sh, DiskWarrior sees the MBR partition scheme as something that needs to be repaired. Allowing DiskWarrior to make this repair would render the Hackint0sh unbootable. THIS JUST HAPPENED TO ME....! What can I do to restore MBR bootability witout going back to Zero? I have a diskimage backup saved of booted Leopard partition made with carbon copy cloner 3.2. Can I just reformat in MBR, HFS+, then mount backup and clone to reformatted partition? This is a Gigabyte EP45-UD3LR, and an Intel Core2Quad Q6600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomatpelle Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 If anyone knows how to edit a native bootable cd with this patch, I'd be grateful. Anyone know how to do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThisCoder Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 to confirm about the patcher... since it dosn't show anything visual when it opens I am left unsure as to how it works.. do I just run it on the system that has diskwarrior installed? or do I drag-and-drop the diskwarrior.app onto the hotfix.app? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonthelion Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 any word on wether the 4.2 (rev 909) version works with hackintoshes or patch infos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppa206 Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 any word on wether the 4.2 (rev 909) version works with hackintoshes or patch infos? I have left messages all over this board asking the same thing. AFAIK, you must hack the Diskwarrior application in order to stop it from repairing the boot blocks, otherwise just running Diskwarrior will render your system unbootable. I have even tried emailing the guy who uploaded this patch but no response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThisCoder Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 I have left messages all over this board asking the same thing. AFAIK, you must hack the Diskwarrior application in order to stop it from repairing the boot blocks, otherwise just running Diskwarrior will render your system unbootable. I have even tried emailing the guy who uploaded this patch but no response. From when I spoke with MrUnknown I learned that 4.1 is the latest version of DW that works with this patch anything after 4.1 (such as 4.1.1, 4.2, et cetera) do not patch Your best bet (and what I am doing at the moment) is to secure a copy of DW 4.1(42) and patch that by dragging the DW app onto the patcher. Peace and Well-Being Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppa206 Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 From when I spoke with MrUnknown I learned that 4.1 is the latest version of DW that works with this patchanything after 4.1 (such as 4.1.1, 4.2, et cetera) do not patch Your best bet (and what I am doing at the moment) is to secure a copy of DW 4.1(42) and patch that by dragging the DW app onto the patcher. Peace and Well-Being Exactly! Which is why it would be wonderful if the patcher could be updated to work with Diskwarrior version 4.2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razr1983 Posted June 6, 2010 Share Posted June 6, 2010 any word on how to boot this on a hackintosh ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandar Posted June 6, 2010 Share Posted June 6, 2010 any word on how to boot this on a hackintosh ? For some time now, I've been running Chameleon from a usb flash drive. This makes it possible to run DiskWarrior without screwing up the system drive. Actually, my system disk is completely vanilla with the exception of RealtekR1000.kext installed to System/Library/Extensions. pandar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razr1983 Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 thanks... that's what I did too... vanilla install on an usb drive and ran it from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiroo Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 DW is now at v4.3. Any chance of somebody looking at this patcher and updating it? Mr. Unknown hasn't logged in since Jan 2010. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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