Directory sverly damaged on external drive, other programs than Disc W.

I have an external Lacie USB 2 drive connected to my G5, now some files refuse to open, I ran the OsX Harddrive tools and it states that there is nothing wrong with the disc and when I do a harware check with Disc Warrior it states that the disc is functioning normally. When I run the Directory Rebuild with Disc Warrior it states "The directory of the disc "Transport" cannot be rebuilt. The Original directory is too severly damaged. The disc was not modified (2155, 2179)"
Is there another program that I can use to try to fix this? I am desperate one of the files is a InDesign project with days of work that will be lost.

Resolved the error, it appears that my Disc Warrior is too old for osx 10.5.6

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Hi eew, Thank you for your answer.
When Classic is running, OS X is controlling the computer, and your access to external drives is the same as when Classic is turned off. Are you confusing Classic operation in OS X with booting the computer into OS 9 (OS X is not running at all)? The difference may seem to be purely a matter of semantics, but it isn't.
1) No, when I turn on my computer it runs on OS X but Classic is also available (I turned the option to turn on both) but what appears on the screen is OS X.
2) > Are you confusing Classic operation in OS X with booting the computer into OS 9 (OS X is not running at all)?
I think I must put an OS 9 disk to boot into OS 9 don't I ? (I mean now that I have Tiger) The OS 9.0.4 disc is sitting comfy in a disc holder.
OS X is always present. When I shot down/wake up it is OS X. Then I see a file (I guess you can call it that) with the title "Classic starting up using "system folder" on "MacIntosh HD" and see the bar in progress. but nothing else. Then the Classic logo (the 9 in a square) is on the top bar. But the desktop doesn't show anything. If I click on the Classic logo and - -> "Start Classic" then, and only then do I see the familiar (and lovable) OS 9.2.2 on the blue background with the 2 faces loading.
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I saw the external drive logo on my desktop, I copied 20 files or so in it. I opened them to check if everything is OK before I trash the original so I don't understand you saying I won't be able to see any unpartitioned 300GB hard drive.
I didn't partition the external drive. I just installed it, open it and start copy files on it.
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I didn't see any warning about that and as I said, I started using the exter. drive. "You may need" and You must" are 2 different things. I assumed everything is OK since I used the external drive without problem. Wrong assumption ?
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And they said Mac OS X : -Drivers not required.
Beside I see it on OS X so that's not a problem
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I will have Tiger on my internal HD and I will have OS on the external. Then I can forget about Classic which is confusing ; It is not OS 9 and it is not OS X it's something in between. (I will not bother to erase Classic or reinstall OS X alone or anything like that it's there, it will stay there but I will not use it.)
Although I will use Tiger 90% of the time.
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