DiskWarrior

Right. Archive and Install should save your data. That you can boot up on the DVD and do that means you do not have a hardware failure--I have had the serendipitous "Frell the Volume" and Hard Drive death! That should do it. You should now considering the following for the future: 1. Spend $100: I need the beer . EX-HDs are VERY inexpensive and this panic should...

that DiskWarrior is no good was mistaken. ...

I've heard DiskWarrior does more harm than good, and you don't need it as long as you have Disk Utility and OnyX. ...

P.S. By the way, DiskWarrior is better than Disk Utility. Disk Utility sometimes runs into disk errors it can't fix, and it can sometimes even make problems worse. ...

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Data Rescue II, MacForensicsLab, OfficeSalvage, FileSalvage, StellarPhoenix, Boomerang Data Recovery, VirtualLab Client, RescuePRO, DiskWarrior 4.1... But none of them is not usefull for my problem. ...

It still may be worth looking into Diskwarrior if you have important data on the drive. If the drive won't mount at this point, DW may make it mountable so you can get your data. ...

Well you could try DiskWarrior but it is almost &100. So you would probably be better off getting a new hard drive because even if a program could fix the error, it will just mask the failing hardware of the drive. Next time be sure you backup your data because you just learned a hard lesson of computing "It is not if a hard drive will fail, it is when it will fail". Sorry...

neither disk utility nor diskwarrior 4.1.1 see it. ...

Disk Utility to repair permissions. Third party, DiskWarrior and TechTools Pro is what I've used most. ...