DiskWarrior also doesn’t do a good job when it comes to explaining some of its options, forcing you to read the manual. The program doesn’t have a close button, so you have to close it from the menu or dock. The automatic disk monitoring module is very old and does not support many modern drives, including those found inside modern Macs with M1 and T2 chips.

The program supports only one method of scanning: the repair of HFS and HFS+ directories.ĭisk monitoring. The program doesn't work as a full-featured data recovery software - it can't recover deleted/lost/formatted data. DiskWarrior doesn’t support automatic updates, so each and every update must be downloaded and installed manually. The application doesn’t officially support macOS Monterey, but we were able to get it to work just fine on the latest version of Apple’s operating system. The developers of DiskWarrior don’t offer a free trial version, so there’s no way for customers to test the software for free. Macs with the new M1 processor are not supported by the latest version of Disk Warrior.

On the official website, the developers have been promising a major new update with support for APFS for more than 2 years now, but nobody knows when it will arrive. Since then, not a single update has been released. That’s a huge downside considering that Apple has been using APFS as its default file system for some time now.ĭevelopment. DiskWarrior supports only HFS and HFS+ drives. On startup, the application always minimizes all other open windows for some reason, which can be quite annoying when you have multiple other windows opened.įile system support.

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