Hard Drive Needs To Be Repaired - Missing Disc
I have a Macbook that came with Tiger on it, and I have manually installed Leopard and Snow Leopard. I was recently verifying the disk and got the message "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 can't find my Snow Leopard disk, but I still have my Leopard one and the original disks that came with my computer (Tiger), and I also have Tiger installed onto an external hard drive I can boot off of (I think - it's been a few years since I've tried). Would any of those be okay to repair the hard drive, or do I have to try to find my Snow Leopard disks?
No. You must use the SL version of Disk Utility. Do not use an earlier version as that could cause more problems.
What you can do in the interim (but you need to eventually use your SL DVD) is the following:
Boot into single-user mode. After startup is completed you will be in command line mode and should see a prompt with a cursor positioned after it. At the prompt enter the following then press RETURN:
/sbin/fsck -fy
If you receive a message that says "*** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***" then re-run the command until you receive a message that says "** The volume (nameofvolume) appears to be OK." If you re-run the command more than seven times and do not get the OK message, then the drive cannot be repaired this way.
If you were successful then enter:
reboot
and press RETURN to restart the computer.
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I have used the Disk Utility software to check my hard drive and it gave me an error message. I used "Verify Disk" and the message was the following: "Disk Utility stopped verifying Macintosh HD" because the following error was encountered: "Filesystem verify or repair failed." In addition to this, in the details shown in the little window under "First Aid" the following message came up: "The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired."
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I am writing to see based on your experiences what is the likely problem in my HD and secondly how I can fix the HD. What should I do to repair the HD?
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