Disk Utility Progress bar

When I repair permissions, I notice the blue bar just sort of sticks at the very start of the progress bar until the last second and then jumps to the end and completes. Before the 10.6.4 update, it would usually move slowly towards the right as the process completes.
Is this normal, or a sign of an issue? No other issues. I just usally repair permissions after an update.

Thanks. I was just a bit concerned because I usually see the bar grow and it works through the process. Since the 10.6.4 update, it just barely shows a blue start and then goes from that to finish in one move after about 8 minutes.

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Hello,
I was trying to repair my hard drive by using my tiger install DVD (family pack) by restarting by holding the c down. I get this “buster bar” circle with line through it, where the apple is with the litte pin wheel spinning at the bottom. I have never seen this. So then I restart using the power button and click on the DVD and do the restart to install figure I can get to the disk utility from there. Same thing happens, I didn’t look through any books this time trying to find the buster bar and what it meant, saved me 15 minutes.. this time I went to system perf and choose the DVD as the startup disc and yes the same buster bar appeared. I believe what the buster bar indicates is that I have used all my installs on the DVD. But how am I supposed to get to the first aid or disk repair if I can’t start up with the DVD. I paid for it as I did all the other “CATS” . panther jaguar puma I did not have this problem until I used the last install, I guess. Any ideas that don’t involve buying some other product. It is a principle thing.
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This what it said in a pop up window
Disk Utility stopped verifying “Macintosh HD” because the following error was encountered:
The underlying task reported failure on exit
this what disk utility said on verifying the hard drive
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Illegal name
Illegal name
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking multi-linked files.
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Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
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Thanks for your answer it sent me in the right direction. I got the iMac G5 Mac OS X install Disc 1 out of the pile of cd’s and used it. Did the hardware test aok and then ran the disk utility and repaired the hard drive. Thank you again, I should have known that…… But I was sure that I had used the tiger install DVD (family pack) that’s 5 installs, to startup and do the same thing before. Maybe not on this iMac but maybe on the … B&W G3, 500MHz ibook, 1GHz eMac, 1.25 GHz eMac, GHz 1.33GHz ibook, or the 400 MHz G4, which is where all the installs went the last on the 400 G4. So after I followed your advise, that worked very well, I just put the tiger install DVD (family pack) in the 400 g4 restarted held down the “C” and it brings up the installer and utilities. Therefore, I guess if you have a tiger install DVD (family pack) with unused installs on it you are able to use it as a startup disc on any feasible Mac. If you have used all the installs you can only use it as a startup disc on those machines you used it to install on. Because I have never seen a buster bar on a start up screen before. Once again thanks
Scott

Disk Utility - Resizing partition

I'm currently in the middle of resizing an external disk partition. It's a 250 gig partition on a 500 gig drive. Disk Utility progress bar indicates "Shrinking disk" and it's been doing this for the past 12 hours uninterrupted.
Is this normal? How long should I continue to wait? Is there any way I can safely abort the procedure? How can I tell if it's still working normally?

Ok, I aborted the procedure. It had been running about 32 hours until then. Thought I'd post an update in case this happens to anyone else.
Disk Utility was still responsive -- I told it to quit, and it warned me it was in the middle of the operation. Finder crashed in shutdown and after waiting a few minutes I killed the power by holding in the power button. Unplugged the external drive's power and the firewire cable to my mac, powered back up, plugged it in, and ... all files, folders are still there. Disk Utility shows no changes were made to partition.
I have no idea what the cause of this may have been. I captured sample processes from the Disk Utility.app and diskmanagementd. Someone knowledgeable about that this process might be make a determination.
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Why does .dmg creation fail in Disk Utility app ?

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Hi and welcome to Discussions,
for such an easy task as duplicating I use SimplyBurns http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19778/simplyburns
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first.
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Stefan

Automatic Error when opening Disk Utility

Hi guys, I recently noticed this problem when clicking "Calculate Image Checksum..." in the finder pulldown menu for Disk Utility. I don't open Disk Utility often, so I can't be sure if this error has always existed or if it only has recently began occurring. Anyways, when I open up Disk Utility, it seems as though it is detecting a .dmg file on my desktop named "Desktop.dmg." When opening Disk Utility and calculating image checksum, I automatically get a pop up error saying:
Disk Utility Progress:
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Thank you!

ive also noticed that if i have the "Macintosh HD" icon highlighted on the desktop, then attempt to calculate checksum, then when Disk Utility opens up it proceeds to checksum the drive and prompts for my password.
So it seems as though whatever it is that is highlighted in finder, Disk Utility will somehow create a .dmg file with the same name and try to mount it. Since this is not a real disk image, the error pops up. I am very puzzled by this, can anybody give me some insight?

New image issues. disk utitily progress resource is busy

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If I am reading correctly, you want to image one computer onto all the others. The best tool for this job is "asr". The pitfall with doing such clones is that there is some specific system informtion that you don't want to clone.
Good information about asr can be found:
http://www.bombich.com/mactips/image.html
A good helper tool from the same source is:
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Help: grey screen with progress bar at startup, no success repairing in disk utility

I got my MacBook pro in December 2011 and never had an issue with it until this same thing happened in February 2013.
Basically, what happens is the computer starts to run really slowly, so I forced shut down. When I tried to power it back on, I can't get past a grey screen with a progrerss bar that doesn't move for about a minute, and then the computer just shuts back off. I tried to some research to figure out how to fix it myself (grateful for my ipad as a back-up computer) but I'm afraid I'm stuck now.
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Klt10415 wrote:
I can't get past a grey screen with a progrerss bar that doesn't move for about a minute, and then the computer just shuts back off.
The fsck drive check at boot is failing to fix your drive, gets stuck and the hardware shuts down the machine if a OS isn't loaded in time.
"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."
Yep, it will either have to be replaced or zero erased and completely reformatted and everything installed again.
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I never set up Time Machine
However, there are pictures on there that I'd really like to salvage.
That's ok, the TimeMachine likely would have backed up the corrupted data and fail to properly restore anyway.
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Problem installating Snow Leopard on old Macbook Pro with Intel Core 2 Duo. After creating partition on internal hard disk (Extended Journaled), installation starts but stops at half of the progress bar. Screen asking Restart appears.

Hello:
I have tried installing Snow Leopard via the installation disc on a Macbook Pro (2007) with an Intel Core 2 Duo, but I the installation has failed more than 5 times.
I have first formatted and partitioned the internal hard disk with Mac Os Extended Journal format.
Once the installation starts, it starts without a problem unti lthe progress bar gest until half completed then a screen asking for a Computer Restart shows up.
It asks to press the power button for some time until it the computer shuts down and then, press again to turn it on.
Once turned on, the installation disc gets readed, the installation screen appears again and asks again to start the whole installation process form the beginning.

Then you have a Hardware Problem.
Your system is Crashing part way through the install and Re-Booting because of the crash.
Could be the drive itself or it could be some other hardware part in your system. Like the RAM.
To check if it is the internal drive connect an External drive to the system by USB and do the install on that external. If the install completes then it more then likely the drive is bad. If it crashes again then it is more then likely some other piece of hardware in your system.

Grey bar at startup - Mac HD is greyed out in Disk Utility - Can't be repaired? Need to salvage my data!

Mac Book Pro -
My MacBook Pro (2008 Model) has been unable to start up - upon the start up screen when the grey Apple logo appears, I get a loading bar below it.
After about 15-20 minutes when the bar is almost complete the machine shuts off. There seems to be no way around it.
So I booted up my laptop in recovery mode, and opened Disk Utility to check my if there was something wrong with my drives -
my Macintosh HD (under the TOSHIBA drive) is greyed out. When I hit verify/repair it returns error messages and it remains greyed out.
I tried multiple times and a few times it stopped being greyed out on the sidebar, but even then it wouldn't let me verify or repair.
Not backing up my data recently is my obvious fault here, but I just wanted to know if there is ANY way to salvage my data.
Things I've tried:
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2) TargetDisk mode
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Any advice appreciated, going to try and take it to a tech shop on Monday.
Thank you!

I would take out the HDD and install it in an enclosure and then connect that to the Mac Pro and see if there is any success.
If not, then look for data recovery software on the Internet. Most will have a 'trial' version that will indicate if the software will be successful or not, so you do not have to commit funds without knowing if it will work or not.
The last option is a professional recovery service. There will be no guarantees of success and the costs will be very high.
Ciao.

Disk Utility in Lion 10.7.4 for Bare Metal Disaster Recovery??

We just got our 15" Macbook Pro back from repair of a catastrophic hard disc failure. Wow. An older Seagate Momentus XT 500 toasted its little self. It seems most of our data are intact. If any software on the *new* hard disc get corrupted, we need a fairly straightforward disaster recovery process.
I need to ask if anyone has successfully used Disk Utility to create a (bare metal) disaster recovery image of everything on their hard drive, including all their software *and* the perfectly functioning OS. We'd like to be able to restore a complete disc image of the new Seagate Momentus 750 XT - taken from a 1 TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex USB drive - to the Macbook.
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When I started to install the OS, my start up disc ( Hard drive) is not showing for installation.
I have gone through the Disk Utility to repair it, but in that Hard drive is not showing in left side bar.
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That suggests that the drive is dead; if so, it needs to be replaced, and any data on it can only be recovered by a professional service, which can charge hundreds or thousands of dollars.
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Disk Utility says "drive can't be repaired, disk and restore your backed up files."

My Mac Book Pro froze yesterday and I had to force restart it. It had been showing me messages that my hard drive disk was full for a while and I was in the middle of transferring files to my external hard drive and I accidentally put a huge large file from my external hard drive into the trash on my laptop which makes me wonder if that means I added more GB to a computer that was already very full. Anyway, after freezing I restarted it and the desktop wouldn't load properly. The desktop picture was there, but folders on desktop did not appear, finder bar was missing and the dock was acting super slow and nothing worked when clicked on. Then the next few attempts were around the same result and eventually became stuck on the apple logo, spinning gear and a progress bar that was not loading at all.
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Safe mode- nothing happens
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That would be fine and dandy, but I have no idea how to back up my files and do all this. I have no idea how to exactly get the data off my hard drive. If someone does, please list a step by step guide for me on how to do so.
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The Hitachi, when clicked upon, shows the S.M.A.R.T. status as Verified and the Macintosh HD doesn't show much in details except for "Not mounted."
At one point, the Macintosh HD was in bold lettering and seemed to be mounted for a few minutes. When that happened, I was able to see the details reading: Mount Point: /Volumes/Macintosh HD, Capacity: 319.73 GB, Available: 11.92 GB, Used: 307.81 GB, etc.
I'm getting nervous to keep turning on and off the computer on force start and shut downs, especially since I have been reading up that the longer the computer is on, the more the hard drive is in use and the more chance for it to start deleting or overwriting my files. Is this true?
It's not mounted anymore since it was momentarily mounted. I just want to get my files off the disk and save them to my external hard drive. That is my main goal right now. What can I do?
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If you want to preserve the data on the boot drive, you must try to back up now, before you do anything else. It may or may not be possible. If you don't care about the data, you can skip this step.
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1. Boot into Recovery (command-R at startup) or from a local Time Machine backup volume (option key at startup.) Launch Disk Utility and follow the instructions in the support article linked below, under “Instructions for backing up to an external hard disk via Disk Utility.”
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2. If you have access to a working Mac, and both it and the non-working Mac have FireWire or Thunderbolt ports, boot the non-working Mac in target disk mode by holding down the key combination command-T at the startup chime. Connect the two Macs with a FireWire or Thunderbolt cable. The internal drive of the machine running in target mode will mount as an external drive on the other machine. Copy the data to another drive. This technique won't work with USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth.
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It has worked extremely well for over 5 years - apart from the Superdrive being temperamental sometimes - but has suddenly gone wrong.
Last week the machine completely froze for no apparent reason. I had to force a reboot. This failed - grey screen and the grey spinning wheel (if that's what it's called), indefinitely.
Forced reboot again and this time held down the shift key to go into safe boot mode. This time it was successful, and I was able to get to the logon screen & log myself in. I opened Disk Utility & attempted to do some diagnostics but the machine froze again.
Looking around various other forum postings...I rebooted the machine in single user mode and was able to get to the command line to type 'fsck -fy' to attempt to fix disk problems. This failed repeatedly, with an error message 'invalid node structure'.
I tried to boot my machine from the OS X disc but my Superdrive refused to play ball - it would not read the disc (or any other disc for that matter, including a copy of DiskWarrior that I have).
I have now got hold of an external DVD drive in the hope that this would show up as a boot device when I switch the machine on while holding the option key down. No such luck - the drive powers up ok (power via USB) but I'm not given the option to boot from it - in fact that screen doesn't appear at all.
All that happens now on powering up - regardless of what I do - is the grey apple symbol appears and a progress bar beneath it. The progress bar gets stuck about 5% of the way along, and then after about 10 minutes it disappears and is replaced with the grey spinning wheel thingy. And then it just gets stuck - nothing else happens.
HELP!
All my important data is backed up on an external drive via Time Machine, so that should be safe, but I'm desperate to get the machine running again.
One thing that occurred to me is that I've had a program called ReFit installed on the machine which allowed me to run the machine as dual boot etc. (and I do have a couple of other small partitions on the drive, not currently used) but the ReFit welcome screen stopped appearing a couple of weeks ago for some reason. I'm wondering if this has somehow messed things up...?
Grateful for any suggestions...
Thanks,
Alan.

For the drive, you should be OK with any SATA 2 at 3 MB/s transfer speed. You could also use a SATA 1, no jumpers needed. (Not SATA 3 - can't be jumpered down.) The early 2006 Intels were 1.5 MB/s -- at least the drives were, so I'm assuming the SATA controller on the logic board was also. Might just be SATA 2 hadn't yet been introduced and can run the faster SATA 3 without jumpers. My guess is not. You should be able to set jumpers on the drive for backwards compatibility. You'll have to contact the drive manufacturer or go to their website for that info.
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/stats/imac-core-2-duo-2.16-20-inch-sp ecs.html
As for the superdrive, I'd contact the manufacturer to check on compatibility.
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