![]() ![]() From here, I ran Disk Utility’s First Aid. I restarted while holding down the Option key. But before going down that road, I attempted a software fix. My first thought was that this was a hardware problem, probably with the power supply. ![]() It didn’t matter if I started up normally or via a Safe Boot. This continued to happen with each restart. Rather, the Mac powered off just as if I had selected Shut Down. It wasn’t merely that the display went black or that the Mac went to sleep. About 10 seconds after the Apple logo appeared, the Mac shut itself off. After a system-wide freeze forced me to do a hard restart, I could no longer get my Mac to boot. I found out the answer when the startup drive in my 2009 Mac Pro inexplicably developed a bizarre symptom a few weeks ago. “So who needs DiskWarrior anymore?” I found myself asking. If it can’t, it typically means either the drive needs to be reformatted or it has a hardware problem and needs to be replaced. And First Aid is usually capable of fixing whatever is ailing my drive. Recovery HD partition built-in to recent Macs, helpful for making repairs to a primary startup disk. It has the convenience of being accessible from the Further, if I do need help, I typically start with the First Aid component of Apple’s Disk Utility. Whereas I could expect to need a disk repair utility at least several times a year back in the 1990’s, problems with my drives almost never happen now. Based on my anecdotal experience, drives and system software are more reliable now than they were years ago. In truth, I have had little use for any disk repair utility over the past several years. While I have been making this recommendation almost since DiskWarrior debuted back in 1998, a recent incident confirmed that it is just as true today. When you have a hard drive that otherwise seems beyond repair, this is the utility you want to have. But don’t dismiss it as a one-trick pony. ![]()
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