Hooray for Disk Warrior 4! Rescued my external HD.

There have been some discussions about the new Disk Warrior 4 (the one for intel) that were, when I looked at them, inconclusive.
Well, I'm here to tell you that it works. I have an external Seagate 250G HD connected via firewire. I keep in it all sorts of things, but mostly stuff that I use for music. Not only my entire mp3 collection, but sample collections used for Logic Pro.
Anyway, today, the external HD was not mounting anymore. Tried everything, including Disk tools, Tech Tools 4, and Tinker Tools. Nothing would work. So I dowloaded Disk Warrior 4 from their website.
5 minutes later, after Disk Warrior "went to work", I had my external HD mounted on my desktop and my files back. It was not a 100% success though. I also had on that disk an OSX 10.4.8 system, so that I could boot from it, and, for example, repair my MBP's HD, and I could not boot from it anymore after DW repaired it. Now, I'm in the prcess of backing my files from external HD -> MBP so that I can re-initialise it, and re-install OSX. But I do have my files back which, 15 minutes ago, I thought were lost.
So, Disk Warrior 4 saved my day. I have no affiliation whatsoever with them, by the way, in case you were wondering...I'm just interested in sharing a solution by using DW4 which many people were scheptical about, including me. Some said in this forum and elsewhere that they would not buy a .0 version, preferring to wait until the next release, presumably to have the bugs ironed-out. Some others were bothered by Alsoft's licensing system. Whatever, I say...It saved my files, 'nuf said. So there you go...Some feedback for you folks, hope it helps.
A.

Looks like HD is dead, installed Tiger successfully but during updates of software, HD started making noises and now won't start.
Suggestions for HD replacement service appreciated....posted separate thread for this.

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