Alsoft Disk Warrior 3 Review

Good Points
Excellent sucess rate on SW damged disks. Comprehensive directory repair. The best SW utility for the Mac by some way. Easy to use, impossible to mess-up. The only OSX utility that will boot you into the desktop for accesing HDs

Bad Points
It's greatest strength could be its weakness as it only does directory type repairs unlike Norton Utilities but then Norton spreads itself too thin and thus ineffectual.

General Comments
Alsoft Disk Warrior has actually been around a long time and spoken of in inner circles amongst Mac engineers but surprisingly it is nowhere near as popular as either Norton Utilities or Tech Tool Pro which is as much a shame as it is surprising. It really is an invaluable tool for SW problems and basically if DW can't recover it then no Mac utility will. It is much more specific than the others and deals with the directory files in far greater detail, this being the most common area of problems. It does also come with Plus Optimiser which is a good disk optimising tool but perhaps a little too hefty for most std. end-users who would be better off using Speed Disk in Norton U. Disk Warrior is not a replacement for anything in my book it compliments the other tools you may have. The beauty of Disk Warrior 3 is that not only is it OSX native but it is the only utility that will boot into the desktop environment which allows you the freedom to back any data up that you might have stranded on an archive (non-bootable) partition. This is very handy and really sets DW way above the rest. Strangely it is also the cheapest a snip around £60 odd. A must have for all Macs.