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 macOS Sequoia (15.0) 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 Sequoia (15.0) 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 Macs include:

• MacBook

• MacBook Air

• MacBook Pro

• iMac/iMac Pro

• Mac mini

• Mac Studio

• Mac Pro

Supported Ports Include:

• USB / USB 3.1 / USB-C

• Thunderbolt / Thunderbolt 2 / Thunderbolt 3 / Thunderbolt 4

• SATA / eSATA

• FireWire 400 / FireWire 800

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 M series

Supported Startup (Boot) Methods:

• DiskWarrior Recovery Flash drive

• Recovery HD* (Apple Silicon not supported)

• Internet Recovery (Apple Silicon not supported)

• Target Disk Mode

• External Startup Disk