![]() ![]() How do I verify that my drive is now unlocked? This is fine if you’re wiping the drive anyway, but you have been warned. IMPORTANT NOTE: Running this command on certain older drives with buggy firmware may erase ALL DATA on the drive. If you entered the wrong PSID, or try to unlock a drive that isn’t locked, the field will turn red. Once you’ve got the PSID key, enter it in the field next to your drive and hit Unlock. The PSID is physically located on the drive, so you may need to copy it down before entering. Note: The key is case-sensitive – make sure your caps lock is off. Your drive should show up in the list here. It may take a minute to open and gather device information depending on the speed of your system. Simply open the “Erase Disk” menu, and select “PSID Unlocker”. It doesn’t show up at all, not even as a “frozen” drive. The most telltale sign is when you open the Secure Erase GUI, and the disk doesn’t show up as a device available for wiping. PSID-locked drives cannot be secure erased with the ATA/NVME Secure Erase command. Generally, you would want to unlock a disk using the PSID when you are unable to secure erase it. The idea is that, as the key is printed on the case of the drive, you need to have physical access to the drive to unlock it, improving security. PSID stands for Physical Security Identifier. It's so silly that APFS is such an unsupported monster.PSID Unlocker GUI – The Writeup What is a PSID key? ![]() So it's backups and recovery software for now. and I can't imagine I'm the only one.Īlso, my iPad M2's handling of drives is a bit of a mess, and I wouldn't be surprised if it too ends up corrupting one sooner or later. So I am still very much eagerly awaiting software that can work the wonders of the Disk Warrior of yore. Which is a huge hassle, as it spits back files often in disarray and untitled, etc. And in every case I've been able to retrieve the data, thankfully, with a recovery software. In every one of those cases disk utility was useless, and couldn't fix the issue. ![]() But I've had a handful of drives failing and getting corrupted, along with several SD cards and thumbdrives. In any case I've tried different brands of hubs, and currently use an Anker. I believe they might be - at least some of them - related to my having to use a hub to connect to the few (two) physical ports of my MBP M1. I've had *several* corrupted drives with APFS. I'm happy to hear that's the case for you Brian. It took a lot of time and effort, on top of having to support existing users and implementing new features. My own company *just now* managed to finish making a fully universal release of our software. I don't know exactly why Disk Warrior has taken so long to release a new version, but being that as a professional mac developer I too have had to deal with sudden, unexpected, and undocumented changes in macOS, Apple's refusal to properly document all of their new APIs, the headaches caused by driver development especially with the switch to DriverKit, Apple's tendency to have parts their software be inscrutable black boxes, and the overall bugginess of macOS, it makes sense to me that it took this long, especially if they have a small team. They are now known to be famously hostile to their platform's own developers. By the article's own admission they didn't release documents for it until mid 2020, three years after it was introduced. It's top tier software.Īnd after all, Apple hasn't exactly been forthcoming about APFS. Pretty much *any* disk issue I had, short of hardware failure, would be magically fixed by Disk Warrior. That software has saved me more times than I can recall. Given how mind boggling useful Disk Warrior has been in the past, I'm willing to give them *a lot* of slack for taking this long. I would be interested in this, since several times files have disappeared from my APFS volumes (from all snapshots).Īpple File System (APFS) DiskWarrior File System Kernel Extensions Mac Mac App macOS 13 Ventura macOS Recovery Storage Our developers are now using this documentation to update DiskWarrior in order to safely rebuild Apple File System (APFS) disks. Apple released a majority of the APFS format documentation in June of 2020. The next major release of DiskWarrior (DiskWarrior 6.0) will include the ability to rebuild APFS disks. Now runs within the macOS 11 Big Sur (and later) Recovery environment on Intel Macs. No longer requires a kernel extension (KEXT) to operate in macOS 11 Big Sur and later. Now runs on Apple Silicon M1 & M2 Macs to rebuild Mac OS Extended volumes. Supports OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion through macOS 13 Ventura when rebuilding Mac OS Extended volumes. ![]()
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