Cannot boot from Disk Warrior 4.0

Is any one having this problem ? When I try to boot from the Disk Warrior disk it just goes to the apple icon then restarts. I must have tries for 20 min holding the "c" key watching my system restart over and over again never mounting the disk. It has been totally unsuccessful using DW 4.0. Its a bummer because I am a fan of this product.

-mio- wrote:
DW dose not boot with the new intel macs!
As you noted you cannot boot an intel Mac from DW 4. Disk Warrior 4.1.1 is the intel version and now boots a version of Leopard from the DVD (the previous version booted into Tiger). If you can't get it to boot using the keyboard at startup try going to System Preferences - Startup Disk and setting to boot from the DVD and restart. If your Mac still refuses to boot from the DVD then as others have already indicated you may have a hardware problem.
Have a look at the Disk Warrior Support Page to get the free update to 4.1.1
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/support.html
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