The question in my mind is whether Disk Warrior's problem with the i7 is merely not having Apple system software for booting a DVD on the i7 or whether there is a problem with the Disk Warrior application and the i7 processor. I asked ALSoft's tech help about the technique I intend to use to rebuild the directory on the i7's hard drive and the answer was that utilizing Target Disk Mode to rebuild the directory of a computer's hard drive is just fine.

Rather than use a bootable external hard drive, I can completely avoid the i7 problem by putting the i7 into Target Disk Mode and boot from my Mac Pro that already has the latest DW version installed.


Mac Pro dual Quad-Core Intel Xeons Early 2008; 16GB RAM; MacOS X 10.11.6, iOS 9.3.5