Geoff Wallace, proprietor of macfixer, said "It's nice to see Alsoft has caught up nearly a year after the Intel based Macs were introduced. Now they can be fixed using the best disk utility on the market."

Other new features include the ability to recover more data from malfunctioning drives, the identification of corrupted preference files, and the repair of attribute B-trees and Access Control Lists.

Distributed by Pica Australia, DiskWarrior 4 costs $159.95 ($89.95 upgrade). Supplies are expected this month.{moscomment}