Apple iMac 24" Desktop "diskwarrior" Questions

...this can happen if you use it when it is doing a software update, there is software called Diskwarrior, insert the disk and start the computer with the "C" key pressed and follow the on ...

OS out of hand. Try the Disk Utility on the restore CD first, or some hard drive recovery tool like DiskWarrior before you re-install the OS

...this, but each requires equipment or packages an average user may not have. You could boot from a DiskWarrior CD and run a disk rebuild; this would report disk hardware failures. You could boot

...will go black & I have to turn it off and reboot. I've done all the maintainence including Diskwarrior, Cocktail, Onyx, HD checks OK as does ram. When you say "screen goes black," does the ...

...and 4g rams would freeze out of nowhere...I have ran various program tools to scan (tinkertool, DiskWarrior etc) soft and hard ware but nothing is showing up...I have reformatted it and it still ...

...could also be a hard drive directory issue. While reinstalling the OS can help this, you should try DiskWarrior first. That program has saved my backside many times. It can repair the directory ...

...let this work and if OK or repaired (if it says it cannot repair then you need a repair utlity like DiskWarrior) then repair permissions, this can take a while with a big HD, then in utilities select ...

...show up as bad, the best course is to replace the drive. If no blocks show up as bad, we would run DiskWarrior on the file system to clear up any volume inconsistencies, which can also give rise to ...

...said it couldn't repair some structure or other, you could try a more high-powered utility like DiskWarrior. But if it was because hardware errors made the drive impossible to interpret, then you ...

...of this age that you could have a failed Hard-drive.  However, if you can locate a copy of DiskWarrior you can fix a corrupt