System Requirements

DiskWarrior 5 supports any directly connected Mac OS Extended (HFS Plus) disk including Fusion Drives, RAID volumes, journaled disks, case-sensitive disks, FileVaults and Time Machine backups. DiskWarrior 5 supports both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs started in OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5) through Sonoma (14.0) when rebuilding external disks*. Apple File System (APFS) disks are not currently supported. Click here to learn how to identify an APFS disk.

Note: The “Startup Disk” of macOS 10.13 High Sierra through macOS Sonoma (14.0) with SSDs (Solid State Drives) cannot be rebuilt with DiskWarrior as they are automatically pre-loaded with Apple File System (APFS). Click here to learn more.

Supported OS:

  • macOS Sonoma (14.0) when rebuilding external disks**

  • macOS Ventura (13.0) when rebuilding external disks**

  • macOS Monterey (12.0) when rebuilding external disks**

  • macOS Big Sur (11.0) when rebuilding external disks*

  • macOS Catalina (10.15) when rebuilding external disks**

  • macOS Mojave (10.14) when rebuilding external disks**

  • macOS High Sierra (10.13) when not rebuilding internal SSDs

  • macOS Sierra (10.12)

  • OS X El Capitan (10.11)

  • OS X Yosemite (10.10)

  • OS X Mavericks (10.9)

  • OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)

Supported Configurations Include:

Supported Macs include:

  • MacBook

  • MacBook Air

  • MacBook Pro

  • iMac/iMac Pro

  • Mac mini

  • Mac Studio

  • Mac Pro

Supported Ports Include:

Supported Files Systems Include:

  • Mac OS Extended (HFS Plus) with variations of Journaled, Case-Sensitive and Encrypted.

Supported Processors Include:

  • Intel 64 Bit

  • Apple Silicon M1 & M2

Supported Startup (Boot) Methods:


* Support for all of the above is dependent on the hardware features of individual Mac models and the version of OS installed.

**When formatted with a supported file system.