Using Disc Warrior for OS 9

I have a backup drive with 2 partitions. One partition is used for backing up my main drive with OS 10.3.9, the other is for my old OS 9.2. This 2nd partition is fragmented. When I try to optimize it with Disc Warrior for OS 9 I get the message "Disc cannot be rebuilt because this disc is shared with OSX". My question is how can I rebuild this partition? If I boot from the Disc Warrior cd I don't get the option of choosing the OS 9 program part of Disc Warrior. Can I just rebuild this partition booted in OS X Disc Warrior since it appears on the desk top?

Unfortunately, no. When Alsoft updated Disk Warrior to work with OS X, they left Disk Optimizer behind. It won't operate in OS X. You can rebuild the drive while booted into the OS X version of Disk Warrior, but not defragment it.
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