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Well I've done it. Installed OS X to an external HD then ran disk warrior from that system for the internal HD which is going bad (SMART reports it will fail very soon). After the disk warrior makes it through the rebuilding of the directory tree, I am now allowed to view the hard drive like it was any other read-only drive on the desktop (unlike with the CD version which allowed me to look at it but since I wasn't running OS X it didn't allow me to rebuild it or copy the data) so now I am copying the drive's contents to a sparseimage (100GB in size) on the external drive so I can copy the data from it later when my new internal arrives.
The old one was a 120GB 5400rpm 5MB SATA and the new is a 320GB 7200 16MB SATA-300. I think I'm stepping up. Thanks again to Giaguara for sticking with me and seeing it through. Disk Warrior has few features but it is powerful.
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