Disk verification help please

I ran a disk verification but it says I need to use the cd to fix the drive. I have snow leopard on my laptop. I got the laptop with Tiger installed. Do i use the snow leopard CD to run and fix the drive or use my original Tiger install DVD and run disk verification from there?
I don't wanna put in tiger and end up deleting something I need.
Help would be much appreciated. thank you/

Hi H,
Use the SL disc and run Repair Disk (not Verify).

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