Disk Utility causes mouse to not be clickable

Upgraded to Mountain Lion, and ran disk utility. After it ran, the mouse would not click. What gives? Is there a glitch with Disk Utility and Mountain Lion?

What did you do in DU? Which iMac, which mouse? Details go a long way in getting solutions. What makes you think there's any relationship at all between DU and the mouse failure?

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Erase and Install
1. Boot from your Snow Leopard 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 Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, 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 Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Quit DU after formatting completes and return to the installer. Install Snow Leopard.
5. After restart into Snow Leopard download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1.

Disk utility & TechTool Pro will not recognize volumes on hard drive

My Powerbook G4 will not start up. This is what happens:
1. Startup chime
2. Hard drive starts to make a constant 'pause-click, pause-click' like a skipping vinyl record sound
3. Then I only get as far as the flashing question mark on screen
I have disconnected all peripherals. I have booted up from install CD and used *Disk Utility* and it does not recognize the hard drive, only the CDR drive. I have booted from the Apple Hardware Test CD. All hardware passes. I have booted off the *TechTool Pro CD* and tried to run the entire suite of diagnositc tests. All hardware passes, all drives pass, but when I get to Volumes and Files, none are recognized. I have tried to get to the *Startup Manager*, but I can't get to that point either, only as far as the flashing question mark. I would like to be able to salvage data from the harddrive, so haven't tried to reinstall software and OS.
It seems to me that the hard drive is probably dead and I probably need to replace it, but is there any hope to recover data from the old hard drive
Any suggestions on what else I might try or on confirming my tentative diagnosis, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Thanks for the quick reply Tom,
I mostly save my work related documents on external flash drives or zip drive media, so my most important data for the most part is backed up. However, I had gotten a bit unattentive with personal interest stuff, like photos, music etc. I'll probably think of something important months from now and realize it was only on that drive, but for now I am most concerned about my downloaded emails and email addressbook. I never thought to back those up. Makes me want to stop running Thunderbird and keep all my emails online. Anyway I have some recent business inquiry emails from new contacts that are stuck on that drive. Can't recall the exact name of the organization this person was with. Aghh.
Think there is any use trying one of those data recovery programs to see if I could extract some information from the disk?
I am realizing that I will probably need a new hard drive to get the computer running . A friend's dad who is a computer teacher (though mostly PC but has kids with Macs so he's been working with Macs a bit and learning) mentioned the possibility of putting in a new hard drive as the start up drive then installing the old one as a secondary hard drive so I can try to access my data that way. Think that sounds like a feasible option to try? Perhaps I could run the recovery within that configuration. Worth a try? Pointless?
I appreciate any words of wisdom or commiseration.
Thanks,
Applangel

Disk utility reports "Device could not be opened" - error when trying to format a new drive in a Mac Pro 1,1

MacPro 1,1 Quadcore 3 GHz (2006 "Woodcrest")
32 GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5770
OS X 10.7.5 Lion
I have encountered the following behavior when trying to format a new drive with disk utility. This description has also been send via the Mac Pro feedback as a bug report to Apple.
On searching the web and forums with this particular error message and behaviour I could not find any usful results. So maybe the following description may be helpful for some users.
Best regards.
1. Drive Bay 1 contains the original 250 GB Startupdisk. It works without errors.
2. Drive Bays 3 and 4 contain each a WD Caviar Black 2 TB SATA 3 HDD. They work without errors.
3. I have purchased a third WD Caviar Black 2 TB HDD.
4. In Drive Bay 2 there has been a Seagate 750 GB HDD, which worked in conjunction with all the other drives without error.
5. I exchanged the Seagate HDD in Drive Bay 2 with the new WD Caviar Black 2 TB HDD.
6. On starting the system, it will report to initialize the new drive.
7. On trying to initialize the new drive with disk utility it reports the error [translated from German] "Erasing of the volume has failed. The device could not be opened."
8. I thought that the drive is faulty. Thus I created an RMA-Case at WD. They exchanged the drive without problems.
9. On getting the exchanged WD Caviar Black 2 TB drive I put it in Drive Bay 2 as before.
10. On trying to erase and format the exchange drive I got the same error message "Drive could not be opened."
10.1 On selecting the physical drive in the devices list, disk utility reports all information in the bottom area of its window as usual, e. g. hard disk description, connection bus, type and place, capacity, write status, SMART-status, partition scheme.
10.1 On leaving that drive selected in the devices list and clicking the info-button, disk utility will also report additional information as usual, e. g. Name, Type, partition scheme, media-identification, media name, media type, device tree, … , number of relocated sectors, etc.. All this information appears to be valid, as can be compared to the other devices information inside the other Drive Bays. Also the disk numbering scheme appears to be standard - 4 HDDs give the numbering disk0, disk1, disk2, disk3.
10.2 From that information I conclude that the SATA-bus and connectors electrically work properly, the drive has spun up and can be accessed by the system normally.
11. I powered down the computer, took out the HDDs from Drive Bays 3 and 4 and put the caddy with the new exchange drive in Drive Bay 4 [Maybe, I could have also just left it alone in Drive Bay 2, or 3].
12. After powering on the system, disk utility will quick format the exchange drive without any error message. Also, when erasing again by selecting the option to write zeros to the drive, disk utility will finish without error.
13. After disk utility finished formatting, I put back the original drives into Drive Bay 3 and 4 and put the now newly formatted drive back into Drive Bay 2.
14. After switching on the computer the system start and login proceeds without any error message. All drives appear as expected on the desktop.

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The antivirus program our company uses, Bitdefender Antivirus Plus, was causing some of the PDF files not to open. After troubleshooting the different modules and settings the culprit was..
Scan SSL in Privacy Control Settings. Turning it OFF solved the problem and all the PDF files that previously would not open now open just fine. This issue has been sent to Bitdefender for them to review. If you use a different antivirus program and are having this issue try locating the Scan SSL setting and see if turning it off solves the problem.

Disk Utility -- SUID FILES "will not be repaired"

Last night I ran Disk Utility.
After repair I received this message --
Warning: SUID file "usr/liveecec/load_hdi" had been modified and will not be repaired.
There is a list of nine similar SUID errors illustrated in screen snap shot at this link:
http://homepage.mac.com/boot321/Permission/PhotoAlbum12.html
I've recently upgraded to 10.5.1
Discovering nine problems that cannot be "repaired" by disk utility gives me concern.
I run a fairly conservative series of applications on my G5. Can anyone advise on what may be needed here?
thank you,
Mike

boot321 wrote:
On the link from Michael Conniff suggesting I read the article that Mac posted saying "not a cause for concern" -- there is only ONE Warning that is illustrated. Since I had a total of NINE, I thought that may have consequence....
Yes, the article appeared just after Leopard was released, when there was only one such message. The others appeared with 10.5.1.
Maybe this will all go away in 10.5.2
There has always been a lag between strange messages appearing and a KB article to explain them. In 10.2.2, we started seeing messages saying "We are using special permissions for the file or directory …". Initially there was just one: by 10.4.4, there were almost too many to count. In 10.4.5, Apple suppressed these messages because all they did was spread alarm around this and other forums.
I have no doubt we'll see the same happen with these SUID messages. If you're interested in what happened before, look at the links in this FAQ: Permissions Issues.

Disk Utility reports 'Volume could not be repaired' Now what?

Disk Utility reports that my internal HD cannot be repaired (I tried booting to the installation CD as-well-as a Superduper image with the same result). Here is the complete dialogue:
Verify and Repair disk “iMac_HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Illegal name
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
Repairing volume.
The volume iMac_HD could not be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error
Repair attempted on 1 volume
1 volume could not be repaired
Unfortunately the backup image has the same problem, so no use restoring the internal HD from it. So what do I do now? I read on a forum that the 'illegal name' error is caused by Photoshop CS, but didn't see a solution. Help!
 20" Intel iMac (2.0GB RAM, 256MB VRAM, 500GB HD) Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I get this error occassionally too. In those cases I take my original install dvd, put it in, reboot and hold the c key.
It then starts an install (don't worry, it won't do anything). When the install screen appears, in the top menu you can select Disk Utility.
Repair the disk from there, it will probably manage now. I guess something is interfering with Disk Utility when all of OS X has loaded.
Once the disk is repaired, verify/repair permissions, exit the program and reboot (don't hold and press c this time around).
Hope this helps.
Lars.
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Disk Utility Failed, Mac HD not working and cannot reinstall OSX

Hi,
I am totally frustrated.
Was working on capturing video using Final Cut Pro and the application froze. After repeated attempts, I kept getting the message to restart the G5.
I tried reinstalling Final Cut Pro - and installation failed. I ran disk utility first aid and found an error on the Mac HD (Startup Disk). So I restarted machine from the DVD (pressing the C button when restarting) and ran disk repair from the DVD OSX Utility. Still got the error that "First Aid Failed" Disk utility stopped repairing Macintosh HD because the following error was encountered. The underlying task reported failure on exit. HFS volume checked 1 volume could not be repaired because of an error. Repair attempted on volume 1, 1 volume could not be repaired.
Then I tried reinstalling OSX onto a second internal SATA HD. Installation failed. Try installing again.
So now what do I do?
I am running Mac OSX 10.4.9
Please help...urgent.
Thanks
MQ

Thanks for the answer...that's what I was thinking.
The following are various issues I am considering maybe the cause:
1. Memory - I installed 2GB a few weeks ago - third party.
2. External HDs - I installed an external Maxtor 1.5TB drive 3 days ago.
3. I live in Africa - and power frequently gets disrupted - even though the machine is on a "solatek" (power stabilizer and high end protector against spikes) - 2 days ago my UPS was down and for repairs - and we had three power outtages.
Lastly, as I mentioned I live in Africa - Mombasa - Apple tech support is almost non-existent here...so I am hoping I can resolve this without having to ship it abroad.
Please help and thank you...
MQ

Mac OS 10.5.6 downloaded Firefox 3.6.13 Came as .dmg When I try to launch it says "Not Recognized". Right click for "Open With" refers me to Disk Utility when same results "Not Recognized"

About my Mac > G5 Desktop OS 10.5.6
Want to upgrade to Firefox 3.6.13
The download comes as a compressed file in .dmg format. When I attempt to launch the .dmg file to decompress I get a error message that says: The following disk images failed to mount: Image > Firefox 3.6.13 Reason > Not Recognized. When I right click to see what opening app it is directed to it says: Open with "DiskImageMounter (default). Disk Utility is offered as another opening resource when I direct the file to Disk Utility and go to Menu Bar select "File" then select "Open Disk Image" (or Cmd + "O") I get the same result. Have tried downloading the file twice more and get the same results

Vk2mh it sounds like the download was not complete or corrupted. Where are you downloading the update from? Have you tried downloading again?

Computer died, Disk Utility causes restart prompt, Error 2NVD/1/4:2086

So, I think my poor PB is on it's last legs. I was using my computer in bed, when all of a sudden it shut down. I waited a minute, restarted, and after the gray loading screen with the Apple logo, a blue, mottled screen came up. Nothing happened past that. I shut the PB down, tried again, same result. I shut down, waited a couple minutes, restart, and I can get to the login screen this time, but the screen has a mottled look to it; basically faint, verticle columns of 1 millimeter wide pink bars. Very faint. Then I tried to go to Disk Utility, but when I tried to launch the app, the restart screen appeared, and I had to restart the computer. I'm running a Apple Hardware Test right now...
And it says "Video RAM error detected", error code is:
2NVD/1/4:2086
So... does this mean the video card is pooched? And why am I getting the restart prompt when I try to launch disk utility?
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Error during Tiger install, disk utility (DVD) says could not unmount disk

OK, I'll start at the beginning. I was running 10.3.9 on my iMac G4. I hooked up a new firewire external HD. Transferred my iTunes music over, everything worked fine. Ran software update to make some updates (iTunes, Quicktime, Security Update, maybe another one) that I had been putting off because I had been out of space. That's when the problems began. It said I could not install updates, so I restarted. Then it hung up at Login Window starting. I did a few hard shutdowns (holding down power button) to try again, but was unsuccessful.
Read all the forums. Decided that I should have repaired permissions, etc. before installing the updates. So I started in single-user mode, ran FSCK, all that stuff, following the instructions very closely. Still kept hanging up at Login Window. So I started up from the Panther install disk, repaired permissions (made a bunch of repairs) and checked hard drive (said no repairs necessary). Restarted, still hung up at Login Window starting.
So I did an archive and install. There were errors near the end of the Panther install, and it said it could not finish. But the computer started up OK, and I was able to back up all my personal data onto the external HD.
So I decided to upgrade to Tiger, thinking that would fix everything. During the upgrade, it said there were errors installing files and to try again. Did so, same result. The computer did start up in Tiger, but clearly was not operating at full capacity (slow, some things didn't work).
So I decided to erase and install. Again, said there were errors and to try again. Did so twice, same result. Started up from the Tiger DVD and ran Disk Utility. When I clicked Repair Hard Drive, it said "could not unmount drive."
So now I am stuck. I have a wiped hard drive. Can't repair it, and can't get Tiger to install properly. Help!
(i do have an Apple store in town, but I haven't gone to the Genius Bar. Wasn't sure how that worked.)
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hmmm. And you're sure that when you select the main
hard drive entry in Disk Utility it shows a SMART
status report that says "Not supported"? That's
really odd because your model isn't too old to have a
drive that doesn't support SMART.
Yep, looking at it right now. I've got the drive that says "38.2 GB ST3408..." selected, and it says "Not Supported."
By any chance would you have another external
Firewire drive on which you could install Tiger? If
you do, then you could try installing Tiger on that
drive. If you can then boot the iMac from the
external drive you could then try cloning the system
from the external drive to the internal drive.
I have the one external HD firewire drive. It has my backed up files on it. Could I still install Tiger on it without erasing those files?
You could do the same thing from another Mac if both
support Firewire. You could boot the iMac into Target Disk Mode while it's connected to
another Mac's Firewire port. You could then clone
from the other Mac to the iMac's hard drive that will
appear on the Desktop of the other Mac.
And I do have another Mac, which I am typing on right now. It's sitting right next to my "sick" iMac. If I recall correctly, it's an iMac DV special edition. It does have a firewire port and I think it has a DVD drive. It's running 9.0 currently.
You can use the Restore option of Disk Utility to do
the cloning. The process is as follows:
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the source or startup volume from the left
side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Drag the source or startup volume to the Source
entry field.
5. Select the destination or backup volume from the
leftside list and drag it to the Destination entry
field.
6. Check the box to Erase Destination. Skip this
step if you've already formatted the drive.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the
Restore button.
So should I use the firewire external HD or the old iMac to do this? (Thanks so, so much for all this help, by the way. I really appreciate it. I love my iMac and want to save it! I have to go cook dinner right now, but I'll come back later to check your answer and try your suggestion.)

Disk Utility permissions - file does not exist ?

I did just do a complete erase and re install.
While in the rebuilding process`s i have noticed that when it comes to doing the update in the cycle of events, java updates will do one and then the updater will pause and check again install another java update and pause, blank screen , weird behavior. i just wait with patience while the system does it`s thing.
I have built up to where there is no more updates available and as usual i do run the Disk Utility after each sequence of updates that the updater provides. I am running Disk Utility from the Machine and not from the upgrade to 10.5 CD or install 1 CD. I have seen that running D U from the CD does not give as full a report in comparison to what the machine does.
Disk Utility shows this:
Jul 23 20:42:17 Macintosh Disk Utility[164]: Permissions differ on "Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaPluginCocoa.bundle/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-rw-r-- , they are lrw-rw-r-- .
when i go into the terminal to get a closer look with:
$ ls -l Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaPluginCocoa.bundle/Contents/CodeResources
ls: Library/Internet: No such file or directory
ls: Plug-Ins/JavaPluginCocoa.bundle/Contents/CodeResources: No such file or directory
and then this:
$ ls -l /Library
drwxrwxr-x 13 root admin 442 Jul 23 19:10 Internet Plug-Ins
shows that it does exist.
yet when i try:
$ ls /Internet Plug-Ins
ls: /Internet: No such file or directory
ls: Plug-Ins: No such file or directory
or
$ ls -l /InternetPlug-Ins
ls: /InternetPlug-Ins: No such file or directory
Question: ? is a question mark, what do i do, what can i do ?.
any feed back on this puppy ?.
Thank you

-rw-rw-r-- , they are lrw-rw-r--
That's because you have updates installed that are more recent than the repair permissions data. Ignore it.
ls -l Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaPluginCocoa.bundle/Contents/CodeResources
You omitted the first / in the path, and you didn't escape the space. The correct command is:
ls -l '/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaPluginCocoa.bundle/Contents/CodeResources'
or:
ls -l /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaPluginCocoa.bundle/Contents/CodeResources
(52936)

Disk utility/repair question - "keys not in order"

I connected my 4G iPod to my computer via firewire when the battery was very low yesterday. For the first time, it wouldn't mount and now doesn't show up in system profiler when it is connected via firewire (even in disk mode). It shows up when it is connected via USB.
It shows up via firewire in disk utility, though. I verified the disk and repaired the disk and got a message "keys not in order". I tried to mount it through disk utility and it still wouldn't show up. I was able to eject it through disk utility though.
It is charging and playing fine.
Any ideas on how to fix "keys not in order" or how to do a full restore when it won't mount?
Thanks for your help.
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.2.x) iTunes 6

We were able to get it fixed. First, I tried erasing it in disk utility. That just succeeded in getting the file with an exclamation mark and no way to restore it. It also wouldn't turn off at that point.
We took it to a PC and were able to reformat it on a PC and now it seems to be working at least initially again with my Mac.

Disk Utility (in Recovery Mode) not seeing internal MBP SSD

MacBook Pro 11,3, Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013
Having an odd problem which occurred under both Mavericks (latest build) and Yosemite (10.10.1).
Under Mavericks, I could not boot at all into the Recovery Drive; I would get to the choose language screen and get the beachball of death. I do not recall exactly when this started happening, but it was long after the last update.
To repair my drive, I would boot into Target Disk Mode, hook the MBP to my wife's iMac, and run DiskWarrior to replace the directory on the main drive, and then run Disk Utility for Permissions Repair and Disk Repair, which would usually find no errors. I would then boot back into my account with no problem, but if I tried to boot into the Recovery Drive, it was the same issue.
If I booted from a Clone (made via Carbon Copy Cloner) of the Recovery Drive, I could get into Disk Utility, but the drive would not be recognized.
Flash forward, I did a nuke & pave of the MBP, a clean install of 10.10.1, and then started rebuilding my Mac's identity, per se (been meaning to do this for years; I think I haven't done a full/fresh install since about 10.2).
So I'm rolling along and decide to boot into Recovery Drive -- I'm able to get through almost everything without issue. I am hopeful. I launch Disk Utility, and then I see my drive -- "1 TB Apple SSD..." -- but below it, instead of the drive name, I see "disk0s2". I can't run repairs on anything.
I'm not keen on doing yet another nuke and pave. The system seems to be fine, everything is running without issue, and (bootable) backups are going along fine.
Any thoughts on what might be the issue? I've read something online regarding "Core Storage" issues with how the drive was formatted, but according to my info, I'm on a standard GUID Partition Table.

MacBook Pro 11,3, Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013
Having an odd problem which occurred under both Mavericks (latest build) and Yosemite (10.10.1).
Under Mavericks, I could not boot at all into the Recovery Drive; I would get to the choose language screen and get the beachball of death. I do not recall exactly when this started happening, but it was long after the last update.
To repair my drive, I would boot into Target Disk Mode, hook the MBP to my wife's iMac, and run DiskWarrior to replace the directory on the main drive, and then run Disk Utility for Permissions Repair and Disk Repair, which would usually find no errors. I would then boot back into my account with no problem, but if I tried to boot into the Recovery Drive, it was the same issue.
If I booted from a Clone (made via Carbon Copy Cloner) of the Recovery Drive, I could get into Disk Utility, but the drive would not be recognized.
Flash forward, I did a nuke & pave of the MBP, a clean install of 10.10.1, and then started rebuilding my Mac's identity, per se (been meaning to do this for years; I think I haven't done a full/fresh install since about 10.2).
So I'm rolling along and decide to boot into Recovery Drive -- I'm able to get through almost everything without issue. I am hopeful. I launch Disk Utility, and then I see my drive -- "1 TB Apple SSD..." -- but below it, instead of the drive name, I see "disk0s2". I can't run repairs on anything.
I'm not keen on doing yet another nuke and pave. The system seems to be fine, everything is running without issue, and (bootable) backups are going along fine.
Any thoughts on what might be the issue? I've read something online regarding "Core Storage" issues with how the drive was formatted, but according to my info, I'm on a standard GUID Partition Table.

Disk Utility and Info do not agree on capacity Used?

Hi.
Macbook pro 13' 2010.
120Gb SSD.
(320GB Harddrive in optical drive).
The SSD is used to mainly run O/S and has only 5 first tier files, The size of each from Info tabs are:
11.14GB
6.77GB
4.07GB
6.3MB
8.0KB
Total: 22GB approx.
Disc Utility tells me that: 99.58 used . 19.6 available.
Info tells me that: 36.06 used . 83.12 available.
Why is there such a great difference between the amount of disk space used?
Thanks
Patrick.

   Re-index Macintosh HD.
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   System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy
   http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409
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Note:
If you don’t have Macintosh HD icon on the desktop,
Finder > Preferences > General > Show these items on the desktop:
Enable “Hard disks”.
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but disk utility includes them.”
http://pondini.org/TM/30.html
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4878

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