Error: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. When I boot on Recovery and run verify disk, the error doesn't come anymore. Just when I run verify disk on normal mode. Anybody has seen this before?

My Macbook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013) has been freezing out of the blue probably once every two months. I restarted on safe mode, went to Disk Utility, repaired permissions and ran "Verify Disk" and got the following:
Invalid directory item count(It should be 114483 instead of 114484)
File system check exit code is 8.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the Apple logo. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility.
Rebooted on Recovery mode and ran "Verify Disk" but the message didn't appear anymore, thus not letting me to access the "Recovery HD" procedure.
When I restart normally and do the disk verification I get the same error.
Has anybody come to something similar?
Suggestions?

I never ever run a Verify Disk. I simple repair the disk drive and then the user partition(s).
And do one or two Safe Boots.
Also helpful to have two full backups: TimeMachine at least, plus a clone of your system drive and data.
Install or clone the system to an external hard drive, repair that and then boot from it, check that everything works, repair the internal drive.
You need to use Repair to TRIM an SSD.
Lots of problems with Yosemite when updating install a new OS. Always better to backup, erase, install, and then use Setup Assistant to import and restore settings and files.
Probably better to post in the MacBook Pro forum or better yet, in Yosemite forum.

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Disk needs to be repaired using the recovery HD

Hello,
I have received an error when running disk utility that says, "This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD." This issue has popped on a couple of times on my previous MacBooks and maybe once on my current one.
I have followed the suggested protocol (restart + command + r), and I choose disk utilities from the menu at start-up. I have both verified and repaired the disk (my HD), and disk utility says there are no errors; however, when I do a normal restart and run disk utilities again, I get the error message This disk needs to be repaired" again. I have cycled through this process and each time verify and repair disk on the Recovery HD indicates that nothing is wrong while verifying the disk on normal startup results in the same error. I computer has also been laggy.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

computer has also been laggy
When you have the problem, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.
Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.
Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
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Error : disk needs to be repaired | macBook Pro 15"

Hello everybody,
when I try to verify my HD from the Disk Utility, it tells I have a problem and I get this message " this disk needs to be repaired using the recovery hd restart your computer..... " as shown in the photo below.
after restarting the computer and choosing Disk Utility, I first choosed to Verify and Repair the "Virtual Whole Disk" it worked well for both and the result was OK and the "Disk Status is : Online"
But the problem is I can't repaire the "OS X Base System", I can only verify. The button "Repaire Disk" is greyed out
Can someone help me solving this problem?
Thanks

Pretty difficult to tell. I'm guessing a serious mess-up in the directory structure and/or partition map. But that's just guesswork.
Can you still successfully boot from the Recovery HD? If so, then you can do the following:
Install or Reinstall OS X from Scratch
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Erase the hard drive:
1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
2. After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the
      left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Optionally, click on
      the Security button and set the Zero Data option to one-pass. Click on
      the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Install button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
           because it is three times faster than wireless.
This should install the version of OS X that you had installed.

Help: Disk Utility: Disks need to be repaired

My MacBook Pro lately has been extremely slow and just constantly thinking and freezing.
I ran the Disk Utility to verify the disk and this is what came up:
"This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your computer, holding down the command key and the R key until you see the Apple Logo. When the OS C Utilities Window appears choose disk utility."
So I did this step and went to repair it. But when I said repair disk, it said that the disk seems to be Okay.
Why does it say that? How can I fix my computer, or do I need to go to the Apple Store. Please Help.
Thanks

Looking at your top screenshot:
That appears to be the NETWORK version of Disk Utility.
From this I conclude your Internal Hard Drive was seen as failing, and it would not boot to the Recovery_HD partition on the Internal Hard Drive, and went for the Online/Network version of Recovery_HD (from the Internet) instead.
I think you should take it in for service and expect that they are likely to replace the Hard Drive and give it back to you with a new drive with ONLY Mac OS X (no user files) installed.
AppleCare warranty and SSD:
Like most warranties, AppleCare covers defects in materials and workmanship. They will replace like-with-like, that is: they will give you the same drive or a slightly better one. I suggest you have it fixed and take advantage of whatever they will give you under warranty.
Apple does not sell the 2.5" form factor SATA SSD notebook drives that would just fit into the same space as your internal drive. These are very popular with upgraders, and users find they are somewhat faster, run cooler, and allow the battery to last longer. You can always replace the spinning internal drive later with one more to your liking, and run the old one in an external enclosure for more on-desk storage.
You do not void your warranty by installing an aftermarket drive such as an SSD, but the actual new drive would not be covered under the Apple warranty. (many Vendors warrant the drive separately for at least a year, sometimes longer).

"Error: This disk needs to be repaired."

Greetings
I ran the disk utility on my Macbook drive and got the following message;
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.
I have googled around but can't seem to find a concise way of doing this, everyone's going on about making new disk partitions?
I have my snow leopard install disk to hand, what is the simplest way to make this repair with my install disk?
Thank you!

The hatter wrote:
Install OS X on a 2nd drive and use that.
Note that there are a few drawbacks to this as well as the benefits:
1. Obviously, you need a second drive. It's great to have one for backups but there are other ways to back up your important data if your budget won't stretch to include the extra drive just yet. Plus, if it comes down to space for important backups vs. space for the OS & utilities, go for the first. That's the irreplaceable stuff!
2. Any software (including the OS) installed on a hard drive is subject to possible corruption, including the kind you are trying to repair. This is not true of software running from an installer DVD, since its contents can't be altered (short of physical damage). So, if the DVD boots the Mac & its included utilities run, you can be certain you are not using corrupted or damaged items. This is not true when you run from a second hard drive.
3. Because you can make intentional or inadvertent changes or additions to the OS on a hard drive, & because some of them can adversely affect its stability, just as in #2 you cannot trust the hard drive to be as safe to use as the DVD.
4. The DVD runs everything as the root user, without the need to log in to any user account. This is beneficial because similarly to #3, some user login items can interfere with normal operation. However, running as root user is dangerous unless you know exactly what you are doing. The DVD greatly reduces this danger by limiting what you can do while running from it to installing the OS or running the included (& known uncorrupted) utilities. this is not true if you run as root user from another hard drive.
So, it is a good idea to weigh the benefits of the second drive approach against the safety of the DVD one & choose which is best for you.

How do I do this: "This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk?"

"This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk."

Stick the disk in, reboot holding c.
Disk Utility is a menu option about the 2 or 3rd screen in the installer. (don't install OS X!)
Because your booted form the installer disk, you can repair the disk.
Quit and exit the installer and reboot.
If your drive is not repaired, make a note of all what it says, for Apple to use.
Reboot and get your files off to a external drive,
Take the note and your comptuer to Apple for a warranty/Apple care call, they will replace the drive.

Error:The Disk needs to be repaired

Hopefully someone can help guide me. I have been noticing a few more spinning beach balls. Nothing dramatic but as a recent convert to Mac (about 1 year) it has me frustrated. A few months ago they got worse and disk utility said my drive was corrupted. Disk utility could not resolve it and through a suggestion I rebooted from the install disk and it repaired the drive. Now with a routine check of disk utility I received a message like below. So I used disk utility from the start up disk to repair the error successfully. Now, just rechecking two days later, it appears that the error is back. Is this something to worry about? If so, it seems I need a more robust tool to repair the disk. Any suggestions? Anyway to tell which program might be causing this? Thanks in advance for any help offered.
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Performing live verification.
Checking Journaled 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.
Invalid volume file count
(It should be 673026 instead of 673027)
Invalid volume directory count
(It should be 174521 instead of 174520)
The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.

Thanks for your response. I finally received my DVD from Disk Warrior in the mail, ran the program and everything seems to be fixed and running more smoothly. Thanks for the tip. Sorry it took a bit to respond back. Thanks again.

This disk needs to be repaired:

I have just checked my hard drive and got this message:
Disk Utility has stopped verifying "Macintosh HD"
This disk needs to be repaired. Startup your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disk), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.
I don't have the disk as I am in a remote part of Ireland miles from both my disk and an Apple store.
Now, my question is, if I update to 10.7 or later via the App Store - I'm currently using 10.6.8 - will I not need to use the OS X disk?

You can not install OS X in system without a properly verified and repaired disk.
Wait until you can get hold of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard disc to do the Disk Repair.

"Error: disk needs to be repaired.. "

When I run disk utility I got the message "Error disk needs to be repaired.." In addition i got the errors:
Incorrect number of file hard links
Volume bitmap needs minor repair for orphaned blocks
Invalid volume free block count
When I restart and after command R, I run the Disk utility but then it shows no errors, what is the problem then?. Thanks

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How to proceed from Disk repair "invalid directory item count" "this disk needs to be repaired"?

I'm trying to repair the hard drive on a MacBook running Mac OS X 10.6.8. To be honest I'm surprised the machine has lasted so long. It's very sluggish at the moment.
When verifying the hard drive, I get these details:
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Performing live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Invalid directory item count
(It should be 37 instead of 35)
Checking extended attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
"This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk."
How should I proceed from here? Is the only path to use a mac OS X installation disk (which I don't have, so would have to source and borrow)?
Many thanks

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I have used three PNY 128 GB USB drives on my iMac. One works fine, one worked briefly but was never recognized again, and the third has the following problem.
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Two HDDs saying 'disk needs to be repaired' at same time / external drive.

Hello there,
I have had a strange problem within the last couple of days. Both my iMac which I use at the office and my MacBook Pro have had problems writing to an external FW800 drive which I work directly off [the error comes when I try and save from an application / try and copy / rename files on the drive]. The message is that either a problem occurred or that the filename is too long [it isn't]. When this happens I try and restart, but the disk causes the finder to hang.
This has happened with both machines [the iMac and MBP], and as a consequence - when I run disk utility on each machine, I get a message that the disk needs to be repaired:
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.
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Many thanks,
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Could this problem in turn cause the internal HDD problems I've been experiencing with the iMac and the MBP after the Lacie becomes unresponsive?
Or, your internal HD problems are transferring to the Ext.?
It's hard to say. I would at least do the following basic repairs to all your hard drives.......
Try using Disk Utility to do a Disk Repair, as shown in this link, while booted up on your install disk.
You could have some directory corruption. Let us know what errors Disk Utility reports and if DU was able to repair them. Disk Utility's Disk Repair is not perfect and may not find or repair all directory issues. A stronger utility may be required to finish the job.
After that Repair Permissions.
No need to report Permissions errors....we all get them.
Think it might have to be returned...
Yes I would return it just cause of the heat issue alone.
Dale

Error: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. When I boot on Recovery and run verify disk, the error doesn't come anymore. Just when I run verify disk on normal mode. Anybody has seen this before?

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