As in my OP it was more so an academic question (based on Alsoft's reply that it should remount), as DW5 mounts and works as expected once rebooted and the flash drive is then inserted. Indeed, perhaps my system could be one of those. There's also this thread, where people reported that some (not all) USB flash drives were failing to re-mount after rebooting Mavericks. Noir, would you mind duplicating my query on your system to see if your DW5 flash drive exhibits the same behaviour? I am running OS X 10.10.3 "The USB flash drive should be recognized as a startup device, regardless of being plugged in before or after you hold down the Option key." Here the most recent reply from Alsoft tech support: ![]() Terminal command is used initially to initialise the SW and update the partition on the flash drive (so as not to have to enter into Terminal each time). Indeed your recollection of the set up is spot on regarding DW5. Once booted in the Recovery Partition, you have to go the menu 'Utilities', start the Terminal and launch DW from there (/Volumes/DW/go). Once booted in the Recovery Partition, you have to go the menu 'Utilities', start the Terminal and launch DW from there (/Volumes/DW/go). Method one cannot rebuild the boot drive, method (2) and (3) require another already existing bootable volume and method (4) uses the Recovery Partition. Which contains a valid operating system installationĤ) Launch DiskWarrior from the OS X Recovery Disk To utilize DiskWarrior to rebuild the directory of a disk, you can:ġ) Install DiskWarrior to the computer’s main hard driveĢ) Install DiskWarrior to a secondary/external drive or USB Flash device, The Four Methods for Utilizing the Software. The answer to Suby's question is that with the recent version of DiskWarrior (5.x), the 'medium' provided by Alsoft (USB stick instead of CD/DVD) is no longer used as a boot volume but as a volume mounted while booted into the Recovery Partition. It's the alt/option key, not the control key (which Suby corrected in his second post). Presumably a volume needs to contain a version of Mac OS X that is recent enough to be compatible with the Mac to be shown on the menu. It lets you pick a volume to start from while the computer is starting up. What is pressing control during boot supposed to do?
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