Disk Utilities | Bug?
Open up your utilities application under Application/Utilities/Disk Utilities.app
Then select any drive and click the info button. Scroll down with your mouse (I'm using the mighty mouse scroll wheel) and what do you see?
I see "Type: Volume" blurred out from top to bottom. It's weird. I wasn't sure where to post a bug, but I figured I can get an answer here.
Let me know if you experience this bug as well.
yep, I have the same thing.
And trying to repair permissions seems to just hang forever. When I hit the 'stop' button it says repair complete. But won't stop on it's own.
I wonder if these 'bugs' are related. Anyone?
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I'm trying to run disk utilities on my airport extrme base station and it won't work.
Do mean to say that you have a hard drive attached to the USB port of the AirPort Extreme?
If yes, Disk Utility cannot "see" a network drive. You must connect the drive directly to your Mac first, and then run Disk Utility on the drive.
Your post mentions Time Capsule, but you may mean to say that you are using Time Machine to try to backup to the drive attached to the USB port on the AirPort Extreme. Might that be the case?
If so, you should be aware that Time Machine backups to a drive at the USB port of the AirPort Exreme are not supported by Apple.
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Some flash drives/USBs don't appear in Finder. But they appear in Disk Utilities so how do I get them to appear in Finder?
If you've never used them before (they are new) then they are not formatted for Macs.
Drive Partition and Format
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
When you want to remove an external device you must Eject it:
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Have a macbook pro running osx lion. Connected a Kindle Fire using micro usb and the disk icon doesn't show up on the desktop. Also sometimes get a message sayiing computer doesn't recognize device. When I opened disk utilities the Kindle disk does show up there. What am I missing?
cashworth wrote:
Kindle is connected directly, not thru a hub. Also called Amazon Kindle support, tech was baffled when I told her I was using a Mac. She said, "I'm not really familiar with apple products."
Precisely why it's not an iPad, and why it doesn't cost very much. An Apple rep would tell you how to connect an iPad to every computer.
Go here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=sv_kinh_9?ie=UTF8&nodeId =200127470 -
Whilst performing a zero/erase install on my Powerbook G4 Firewire (aluminium) with an OSX Tiger install disk (Tiger was the OSX i had erased), I had to force quite the installer as it appeared to be stuck on the Chinese script install section. I crashed the Powerbook down using the power button method. Now, when i power up the computer, it stays on the grey screen and just beeps at me. If i insert the install disks (both OSX Tiger or the original Powerbook Panther ones) there is no volume found during the install process. In disk utilities no hard drive icon or volumes appear in the left hand list, just 2 headings regarding the OSX install disk. I have clicked 'Verify Disk Permissions' on these headings and receive this message in the action box: Error: No Valid Packages (-9997). All other options in disk utilities are not available to use (partitions section etc), as there is no hard drive recognized to perform anything on. I presume my erase install has wiped out my previous OSX Tiger without installing some essential on the Powerbook (receipts perhaps?). My Powerbook was working 100% before this install attempt. It's a very lightly used machine with no noises/whirrs coming from the hard drive that would suggest failure of some kind. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Many thanks for your advice old comm guy.
I have run the Hardware Test as supplied with the Powerbooks install disks and everything has passed. I presume i can put my mind at rest about it being a problem in any of those departments. I have been browsing for a couple of weeks now and think my problem could be a loss in receipts/permissions somewhere. I remember looking for a lost file awhile back using a hard drive search programme through Terminal. It filled my hard drive almost to the maximum with unwanted retrieved files, it took me hours to erase all this again (never found the document i was looking for either). Perhaps a receipt was erased/trashed at this time?. Sometime later (prob weeks) i performed a fresh OSX install to give me an uncluttered faster running machine (I do this once a year). I zero erased the hard drive (including free space) and it was during this install that i had to force quit. It seemed to be stuck loading the Chinese Script so i had no option. After this the problem as described above has been persistent. Is there a way to restore receipts/permissions through Terminal or something like that?. Or maybe a procedure that one has to do when installing a new hard drive?. A step by step guide from someone would be a real help as i am not really confident using these advanced procedures. -
my macbook wont start the screen turn blue and stay like that for hrs. It only work when i use safe mode, i try to use disk utilities to fix it but the disk utilities keep saying error and a bunch of other stuff. I dont the cds the comp came with, help. i've tried the command s command p command v but nothing i've tried to the safe mode then a quick restart but nothing
disk utility give me this:
Process: Disk Utility [371]
Path: /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app/Contents/MacOS/Disk Utility
Identifier: com.apple.DiskUtility
Version: 11.5.2 (298.4)
Build Info: DiskUtility-2980400~60
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [86]
Date/Time: 2013-11-05 03:29:41.247 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report: 9522 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 29
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 981 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 25
Anonymous UUID: F6B8E263-76C8-4C7D-AA58-48134BF4BA78
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000020
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x0000000100c62fbc _read_images + 312
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x0000000100c79721 map_images_nolock + 1266
2 libobjc.A.dylib 0x0000000100c62761 map_images + 115
3 dyld 0x00007fff5fc039c5 dyld::notifyBatchPartial(dyld_image_states, bool, char const* (*)(dyld_image_states, unsigned int, dyld_image_info const*)) + 853
4 dyld 0x00007fff5fc0c849 ImageLoader::link(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, bool, bool, ImageLoader::RPathChain const&) + 201
5 dyld 0x00007fff5fc04d54 dyld::link(ImageLoader*, bool, ImageLoader::RPathChain const&) + 118
6 dyld 0x00007fff5fc08f7c dlopen + 490
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x0000000100a14e40 dlopen + 61
8 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x0000000100d78ef7 _CFBundleDlfcnLoadBundle + 231
9 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x0000000100d77e97 _CFBundleLoadExecutableAndReturnError + 1191
10 com.apple.Foundation 0x0000000101008355 _NSBundleLoadCode + 638
11 com.apple.Foundation 0x0000000101007c78 -[NSBundle loadAndReturnError:] + 742
12 com.apple.Foundation 0x000000010101960c -[NSBundle principalClass] + 38
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18 com.apple.AppKit 0x00000001013e1f77 -[NSWindowController window] + 112
19 com.apple.AppKit 0x00000001015f61d9 -[NSWindowController showWindow:] + 47
20 com.apple.AppKit 0x00000001015c7c5c -[NSDocument showWindows] + 98
21 com.apple.AppKit 0x00000001015c64bb -[NSDocumentController openUntitledDocumentAndDisplay:error:] + 340
22 com.apple.AppKit 0x00000001014f7b44 -[NSDocumentController(NSInternal) _openUntitled] + 111
23 com.apple.AppKit 0x00000001014f79ab -[NSApplication _doOpenUntitled] + 257
24 com.apple.AppKit 0x00000001014f733b -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpen:] + 185
25 com.apple.AppKit 0x00000001014f6fd9 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleCoreEvent:withReplyEvent:] + 77
26 com.apple.Foundation 0x0000000100ffd0d6 -[NSAppleEventManager dispatchRawAppleEvent:withRawReply:handlerRefCon:] + 360
27 com.apple.Foundation 0x0000000100ffcf06 _NSAppleEventManagerGenericHandler + 114
28 com.apple.AE 0x0000000104d7332b aeDispatchAppleEvent(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*, unsigned int, unsigned char*) + 162
29 com.apple.AE 0x0000000104d73224 dispatchEventAndSendReply(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*) + 32
30 com.apple.AE 0x0000000104d7312b aeProcessAppleEvent + 210
31 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00000001028a0619 AEProcessAppleEvent + 48
32 com.apple.AppKit 0x00000001013fc095 _DPSNextEvent + 1191
33 com.apple.AppKit 0x00000001013fb801 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 155
34 com.apple.AppKit 0x00000001013c168f -[NSApplication run] + 395
35 com.apple.AppKit 0x00000001013ba3b0 NSApplicationMain + 364
36 com.apple.DiskUtility 0x0000000100002009 0x100000000 + 8201
37 com.apple.DiskUtility 0x0000000100001db8 0x100000000 + 7608
Thread 1: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x0000000100a27c0a kevent + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x0000000100a29add _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 154
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x0000000100a297b4 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 185
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x0000000100a292de _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 252
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x0000000100a28c08 _pthread_wqthread + 353
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x0000000100a28aa5 start_wqthread + 13
AND MORE TOO MUCH TO COPY N PASTE HELP PLEASE!!!!!Reset the PRAM
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it shows in the disk utilities but does not allow me to find a problem or fix the problem? Please help. also my external hard drive is a seagate free agent go, 500GB. it is visible on my tv but has no files in it… i'm scared i've lost everything?
Honestly i cannot remember sorry, i got it like 5 maybe 6 yrs ago and just started downloading things to it as the memory on the computer started filling up and when i wanted to see photos/videos on my TV.
My wife did tell me after i had written this post that she did try and record TV to it as it was plugged in. I think by doing so somehow has deleted everything. It reads on my TV yet has no files in it but won't show up on my computer. hope this helps.
Starting to think it is going to cost more to retrieve files on it than it will be to buy a newer and larger one. -
ok so i accidentally remove the USB while my laptop was backing up to the time machine partition on my external HDD. I plug it in again, and no time machine partition. just the other part (fat 32 partition). so i open disk utilities.. the partition is there but grayed out. so I repair it.. and it says it cant repair it i need to back it up and format it. ok great.. i tried to do that and it said it can't access the disk.. super.
any way.. i don't know why i decided to check my other drives and see how they're doing.. and it turns out.. my startup disk has problems.. and you guessed it.. it can not be repaired:D so i restart in recovery mode.. did it again.. and? it can't be repaired.. i need to backup the drive and format it... (like the same problem with the time machine partition) just great! so i restart the laptop.. it safe boots.. I dnno why.. and everything is like it was.. I mean I don't see a problem with my drive.. i can do everything but that "cant repair" thing is scaring me.. what should I do? just leave it? or brace myself for a possible HDD death? I DON'T EVEN HAVE A BACKUP)
help me i feel vulnerableAs you have indicated, you don’t want to touch the partitions on your existing external drive because it has live files in the FAT32 partition for which there are no copies anywhere else. That leaves you with two sets of data that are currently not backed up: your FAT32 partition and your system drive. I suggest you need at least one more external HD for backups.
A “backup” drive should never have live files on it because should that drive fail all the live files on it would be lost. So you need a second external HD anyway for a proper backup scheme.
I would partition a new disk as you have the current one and then copy all the FAT32 files form the old disk to the new one. Then you can try repartitioning the old drive. I would then setup a backup scheme to periodically clone the new FAT32 drive onto the old FAT32 one, using the new disk for your live FAT32 files and dedicating the old disk to backups. You could also continue using the old disk for Time Machine backups.
You can use Mac cloning software such as Carbon Copy Cloner to maintain the cloned backup copy of your FAT32 data.
http://help.bombich.com/kb/usage-scenarios/backing-up-tofrom-network-volumes-and -other-non-hfs-volumes -
I have an iMac mid 2010. After Disk utilities said the drive was corrupt, I ran the hardware test (extended) 3 times. No problems. I than ran Disk utility again and got 2 messages in red…keys out of order, and ……Volume corrupt, can't be repaired.
I tried to do a system install, but message said…disk can't be changed. Will a complete erase and install fix this ?
Everything is backed-up.There's hardware and software.
Your drive could physically be in good condition but something has caused the file structure to be messed up (it just happens sometimes). The directory that keep track of files is corrupt. Disk Utility can help determine if that is the issue. In some cases it can repair the problem but it cannot do it to a drive that is being used to boot the system while you are doing that. You have to boot from another drive. Some things DU cannot repair and you need to try a stronger utility such as Diskwarrior.
A failing hard drive (one with mechanical issues) can be a cause of file structure issues but this is by no means always the case. Apart from looking at the SMART diagnosis feature of Disk Utility (and smart isn't totally reliable) there often isn't a way to tell if a drive is failing until it suddenly happens, which is why you need to maintain backups.
In your situation it does sound serious and not just minor directory corruption. You can try erasing (formatting) the drive, You may need to do this if it is really corrupt, in which case there could be underlying physical issues. I use old technology but if you have the patience you can try erasing the drive with the security option of writing zeros once (don't do more unless you are going on a 3 week vacation). This makes the drive not simply assume everything is okay by forcing it try every part of the drive by writing data. If something is gong wrong you may find it marks a lot of bad sectors, or flat out refuses to format. Then you know you need a new drive. -
My computer is shutting down before fully booting up. I am running the disk utilities program and have this message: Error: Disk Utility can't repair this disk . . . disk, and restore your backed-up files. Can anyone suggest what I should do next?
So, you can't Install OSX to the external?
Or you can't boot from it when you do?
You're not the only one wondering... I'm reminded of the Goose that laid the Golden Egg story. -
External hard drive corrupted after trying to fix it, in macbook Disk utilities
hello,
After fixing my macbook internal drive with disk utilities, i put to verify my WD external hard drive,that acuse me some errors.
Well i don´t no why but i put the disk utility run for de WD external drive. A few time later , shows up a message that the disk couln't fixed, to format them.
After that my external WD wasn't recognize by any computer, i think the modules of the disk was corruped.
Does any one knows how can i invert ou fix the problem, without formating?
Thank youBalibaleia wrote:
Does any one knows how can i invert ou fix the problem, without formating?
I assume your asking because you have data on that drive to recover first.
Your going to need to install something like Data Rescue on your computer's boot drive, then connect the problem drive and another external drive with enough space to send all the recovered files too.
Data Rescue takes a long time, it reads the 1's and 0's of the files themselves off the drive, not listening to anything else, it will cost you $100, but that's the going price for software like this.
The option if that doesn't work is to take the internal hard drive out of the external case and use a SATA to USB adapter cable $40, then try the above Data Rescue method again.
If you don't care about any data on the drive, then just toss it. Drives are cheap. -
i have a slow macbook, i ran live disk utilities (from hard drive), turned out I needed to repair disk from a installation disk. Did that, I got the volume (Hard drive) repaired from the installation disk disk. To this point, great!
When I reboot from hdd, then run disk utility, I get the same error message i did b4 repair. I went thru two rounds of this.....
Can anyone help? thanksSorry guys, I don't see how to reply to you so I use reply to "me" basically.
So the error I get is "volume header needs minor repair" and then you need to perform repair from the installation disk message.
I did repair not verify from the disk twice. Every time ending in the "the volume had ha been successfully repaired". Then I reboot from the internal disk. Run disk utilities from it, do verify and get the same error message I got before repair. I hope this can shed some light fr you guys. Sorry I didn't include details in the original
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Hi
My time machine hard drive has stopped working after the latest update and the Disk Utilities says,:
Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files."
How can I back up my files before reformatting when I can't even open the drive's folder?
Thanks for the help.I think my time machine is not working correctly and I dont know how to get it back... I really need to get back my photos!!!!!
Exactly this was the way I USED to make restores of files and photos..
but know I CANT!!!!
When I am inside iPhoto y click on the Time Machine icon at the Dock and it goes to this...
at my right side there are the backups but when i click them nothing happens they are like NOT CLICKABLE...
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Where in a lion install disc made from the installer can I find a bootable file with disk utilities?
I downloaded lion a few hours ago and installed.
I have 4 large hardrives (1.5TB) arranged in 8 partitions to allow me to work on a varied group of projects. I have some projects that need to be worked on with software running under Tiger, some with software that runs under leopard, some with snow leopard, and now Lion. I own multiple copies of software and multiple user pack system install discs.
On a regular basis, I back up chunks of work on projects to external discs, and special backup areas on one of my drives. I don't like using time machine because I am running many operating environments on my mac pro and I don't ever want to be tied to one operating environment for important functionality, and I want to maximize the open space on my hard drives.
Several partitions involve large video files. I am working on them in various versions of final cut, premiere and imovie. Because I have to use the same software versions my different clients are running, I don't want to move all the files " up" to a modern version. It would be professional suicide to stop accommodating my various clients. I say this to try to head off being told to make my clients upgrade. There are too many different clients and they are not going to replace all their equipment.
On these volumes with video files, I often fill them up and copy off what I need to backup before I erase and do a clean install. I also run VM Fusion and windows XP. I absolutely do not want to have a Recovery HD partition left on the drive when I erase or influencing the other partions using different OS versions on that same drive.
Is there a bootable disc on the installer disk I just made? Can I use the disk utilities to do a low level erase on the lion volume that will remove the recovery partition?
Can I go back to booting from Snow Leopard and erasing the Recovery partition with the drive partition that way? Will the Snow Leopard utility take out the Lion HD recovery partition?
I am used to erasing my drives and rebuilding my machine and I believe it is the right way to use my multiple drives in my workflow. Now that I've got this invisible recovery partition, can you help me remove it and create a bootable disc that includes disk utilities?I assume the unix pdisk command will show you want is going on.
You may not have a big worry. There have always been a lot of hidden partitions. Disk Utility under 10.4.11 reports this drive has three (my now report four ) partitions, when pdisk reports that there are 15.
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
Press return when done typing sudo pdisk -l
-l include a lower case L
The sudo command will ask for your administration password. No characters will appear when typing your password. Press return when done typing. sudo stands for super user do. It's just like root. Be careful.
mac $ sudo pdisk -l
Password:
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/rdisk0'
#: type name length base ( size )
1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
2: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 56 @ 64
3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 56 @ 120
4: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 56 @ 176
5: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 56 @ 232
6: Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 512 @ 288
7: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 800
8: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1312
9: Apple_Bootstrap untitled 1954 @ 149319048
10: Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_1 2254440 @ 263968 ( 1.1G)
11: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 6617188 @ 149321002 ( 3.2G)
12: Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_2 146538496 @ 2780552 ( 69.9G)
13: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 363298 @ 155938190 (177.4M)
14: Apple_Free Extra 262144 @ 1824 (128.0M)
15: Apple_Free Extra 262144 @ 2518408 (128.0M)
Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=156301488 (74.5G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: 23 @ 64, type=0x1
2: 36 @ 120, type=0xffff
3: 21 @ 176, type=0x701
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Repair disk greyed out in disk utilities
I am trying to repair my harddrive using disk utilities but its greyed out. if you verify the disk it says.
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
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
Any ideas how to proceedYou cannot do this from the same start-up disk. Reboot from your install disk (holding down the C key). Once it opens, select your language, and then go to Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Select your hard disk as before and click Repair.
Once that is complete reboot again from your usual start-up disk.
More useful reading here:
Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417?viewlocale=en_US
For a full description of how to resolve Disk, Permission and Cache Corruption, you should read this FAQ from the X Lab:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/repairprocess.html
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