Problem with Disk Repair

Hi,
Utilities>Disk Utility>Verify Disk.
This is what happened...
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
61 %)
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
Volume Header needs minor repair
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair
I don't quite know what to make of this. Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for your help.
14.1 LCD iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.4)   40GB Hitachi HD

hello Mac attac, welcome to discussions,
I had the same problem just about a week ago, it's simple and easy to repair. You need to reboot from your Mac OSX install disc (reboot with the cd inside the computer), once you here the dong, hold "C" down, until... you'll see (not quite sure what appears)
Go in the disk utility in one of the menus, and repair your disk... It took about 10 minutes fo me to clean the mess up, now computer runs great!!
Hope you'll solve your problem,
Best to you
Charles

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    Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger, Leopard or Snow Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
    If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
    2. Do not proceed with an Archive and Install if DU reports errors it cannot fix. In that case use Disk Warrior and/or TechTool Pro to repair the hard drive. If neither can repair the drive, then you will have to erase the drive and reinstall from scratch.
    3. Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When you reach the screen to select a destination drive click once on the destination drive then click on the Option button. Select the Archive and Install option. You have an option to preserve users and network preferences. Only select this option if you are sure you have no corrupted files in your user accounts. Otherwise leave this option unchecked. Click on the OK button and continue with the OS X Installation.
    4. Upon completion of the Archive and Install you will have a Previous System Folder in the root directory. You should retain the PSF until you are sure you do not need to manually transfer any items from the PSF to your newly installed system.
    5. After moving any items you want to keep from the PSF you should delete it. You can back it up if you prefer, but you must delete it from the hard drive.
    6. You can now download a Combo Updater directly from Apple's download site to update your new system to the desired version as well as install any security or other updates. You can also do this using Software Update.

  • Problem With Disk Utility - Repair Permissions

    Is anyone else having this problem. When I go to verify or repair permissions using Disk Utility, it behaves nothing like it did in Tiger. For 1, takes like 10 minutes... took about 2 before. And 2, I keep getting a Warning message:
    Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
    I installed Leopard doing an Erase and Install.... so this was a fresh - full install. What's the deal?

    Oh for the love of god, it begins again!
    Folks, chill out!
    Leopard introduces a completely different "installer package receipt" format called a flat file format based on SQLite. The database file on my Mac (from a pre-release version of Leopard) is the following:
    /Library/Receipts/db/a.receiptdb
    The file is 140 MB in size and contains a ton of information. Sorry, I'm currently burning my final copy of Leopard to a DVD otherwise I'd run Repair Permissions here on the pre-release version I'm currently running and comment on the results. I did notice that it takes a while longer than in Tiger. It's quite possible that Repair Permissions in Leopard is looking at many more things than just the basic file permissions that it did in Tiger, Panther, or Jaguar.
    Access Control Lists (ACLs) are an additional, advanced type of permission setting for files and directories. The fact that Repair Permissions in Leopard even mentions ACLs suggests that it's concerning itself with a great deal more things than it did in Tiger, Panther, or Jaguar.
    I didn't get that message about ARDAgent in the pre-release versions, I'll take a look at it more once I finish burning and installing the release version.
    ARDAgent is part of Apple Remote Desktop, and 'SUID' refers to a "SetUID" executable. (For more info on SetUID, you might check out my page on http://homepage.mac.com/mdouma46/fdup/fdup.html where I wrote a utility to repair the permissions of Jaguar Disk Utility's Repair Permissions feature. All that warning is saying is that Disk Utility isn't going to alter the permissions on the file. I honestly don't think it's anything to worry about, nor are any of the other messages that it reports.

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