HDD Problem at Disk Utility

i got this problem abt few months ago when i checked Disk Utility & that was a first time i checked Disk Utility & I'm not sure that i bought my imac with that problem or not... can anyone help me how to solve this thing or do i just need to go to apple store?

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HT203176 i have a slow macbook, i ran live disk utilities and said I need to repair disk from a cd. did that, I got volume repaired from the external disk. when I reboot from hdd, then run disk utility, I get the same error message i did b4 repair

i have a slow macbook, i ran live disk utilities (from hard drive), turned out I needed to repair disk from a installation disk. Did that, I got the volume (Hard drive) repaired from the installation disk disk. To this point, great!
When I reboot from hdd, then run disk utility, I get the same error message i did b4 repair. I went thru two rounds of this.....
Can anyone help? thanks

Sorry guys, I don't see how to reply to you so I use reply to "me" basically.
So the error I get is "volume header needs minor repair" and then you need to perform repair from the installation disk message.
I did repair not verify from the disk twice. Every time ending in the "the volume had ha been successfully repaired". Then I reboot from the internal disk. Run disk utilities from it, do verify and get the same error message I got before repair. I hope this can shed some light fr you guys. Sorry I didn't include details in the original
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I have a problem with disk utility that is not on my mac pro

I have a problem with disk utility that is not on my mac pro

Open your Applications folder then open the Utilities folder. It should be there.
If not, click the magnifying glass icon top right corner of your screen. That's Spotlight.
Type: Disk Utility
Hopefully it will show up.
Mac Basics: Spotlight

Problems with Disk Utility Repairing Permissions

Has anyone who had problems with Disk Utility after installing 10.5.1 through Software Update been able to resolve them by installing the Combo update instead?

The Solution?
REINSTALL OSX using the Install DVD.
I called APPLE Support and we went through a troubleshooting process to rule out Network Issues, Software Issues, File Issues and Hardware Issues. This process was very thorough.
In the end, we used the Operating System Installation DVD to reinstall the system, which took about 60 minutes including downloading the updates. Reinstallation did not affect any files or lose any applications. Everything was as I left it -- nothing was missing. Easy.
Now everything is back to normal.

Problems with Disk Utility backup & restore via DMG disk images

I attempted to backup and restore a 2TB external raid storage device using the recommended Disk Utility procedure for 10.6.6. One of the HDDs in the raid enclosure had started to fail.
First step was to create a new image from the 2TB device. I accepted the defaults of compressed image format and no encryption. The image took about 15 hours to create, and when complete, I was left with 2 files:
OWC2TB.dmg (1.1TB)
OWC2TB.002.dmgpart (486GB).
To check the DMG I ran the Disk Utility "Verify Disk" on the DMG, and got the message "The volume OWC2TB appears to be OK". The DMG is described in DU as:
Description: Apple UDIF read-only compressed (zlib)
Connection Bus: Disk Image
Total Capacity: 2 TB
Disk Write Status: Read Only
Partition Map Scheme: No partition map
I then replaced the failing HDD in the enclosure, recreated a new 2TB filesystem on the device, and attempted to restore from the DMG image.
The first attempt was to use Disk Utility "Restore" function. I specified the DMG as the source and the new device as the destination, and chose "Erase Destination". This failed immediately with the error "Restore failure. Could not find any scan information. The source images needs to be imagescanned before it can be restored".
After researching this error I tried to correct it by selecting the DMG in Disk Utility and running Images => Scan Image for Restore. This failed immediately, complaining there was insufficient disk space. More research revealed it needed the same amount of spare space on the same disk to do an imagescan. So I had to free up an EXTRA 1.5TB of space in addition to the space the DMG consumed. Not very user friendly.
The next attempt to imagescan the DMG got further than the "insufficient space" error. It displayed "Scanning image OWC2TB.dmg, Block Checksum Partition #1". This ran for about 10 hours. At the end, it displayed a new error message "Unable to scan OWC2TB.dmg (internal error)".
Next I tried to mount the DMG and copy the files manually. My first attempt at this resulted in a "Verifying..." phase which looked like it will take about 10 hours, so I clicked "Skip". Soon after I got an error message "Unable to attach OWC2TB.dmg (no mountable file systems).". Now I am trying a mount with the Verify option...
Can anyone suggest what I can try next to restore the DMG?
I think the problem might be the fact the DMG is split in two parts, but the imagescan/restore software does not know how to read the second part? Is there a way to join these into a single DMG?

I attempted to backup and restore a 2TB external raid storage device using the recommended Disk Utility procedure for 10.6.6. One of the HDDs in the raid enclosure had started to fail.
First step was to create a new image from the 2TB device. I accepted the defaults of compressed image format and no encryption. The image took about 15 hours to create, and when complete, I was left with 2 files:
OWC2TB.dmg (1.1TB)
OWC2TB.002.dmgpart (486GB).
To check the DMG I ran the Disk Utility "Verify Disk" on the DMG, and got the message "The volume OWC2TB appears to be OK". The DMG is described in DU as:
Description: Apple UDIF read-only compressed (zlib)
Connection Bus: Disk Image
Total Capacity: 2 TB
Disk Write Status: Read Only
Partition Map Scheme: No partition map
I then replaced the failing HDD in the enclosure, recreated a new 2TB filesystem on the device, and attempted to restore from the DMG image.
The first attempt was to use Disk Utility "Restore" function. I specified the DMG as the source and the new device as the destination, and chose "Erase Destination". This failed immediately with the error "Restore failure. Could not find any scan information. The source images needs to be imagescanned before it can be restored".
After researching this error I tried to correct it by selecting the DMG in Disk Utility and running Images => Scan Image for Restore. This failed immediately, complaining there was insufficient disk space. More research revealed it needed the same amount of spare space on the same disk to do an imagescan. So I had to free up an EXTRA 1.5TB of space in addition to the space the DMG consumed. Not very user friendly.
The next attempt to imagescan the DMG got further than the "insufficient space" error. It displayed "Scanning image OWC2TB.dmg, Block Checksum Partition #1". This ran for about 10 hours. At the end, it displayed a new error message "Unable to scan OWC2TB.dmg (internal error)".
Next I tried to mount the DMG and copy the files manually. My first attempt at this resulted in a "Verifying..." phase which looked like it will take about 10 hours, so I clicked "Skip". Soon after I got an error message "Unable to attach OWC2TB.dmg (no mountable file systems).". Now I am trying a mount with the Verify option...
Can anyone suggest what I can try next to restore the DMG?
I think the problem might be the fact the DMG is split in two parts, but the imagescan/restore software does not know how to read the second part? Is there a way to join these into a single DMG?

Problems with Disk Utility

Hi,
iPhoto crashed my computer in a big way and after leaving the rainbow wheel for about an hour, with very sluggish response I kept the power button down and reset (without doing a shutdown).
Unfortunately it has a created a massive problem with my Macbook Pro, in so much that it no longer boots up.
I get the grey screen with the Apple and progress wheel, but then nothing.
I have booted from an external USB hard disk (also 10.6) and ran disk utility.
S.M.A.R.T. reports all ok
Repair disk reports all ok
Repair disk permissions fails with the following error:
Error: Permissions verify or repair failed
I've checked the system.log file and this is the error:
com.apple.DiskManagement.RepairPermissions|2011-09-05 18:15:02 +0100
Sep 5 18:16:38 unknown-c4-2c-03-37-31-6d diskmanagementd[1230]: APICALLBACK_dmAsyncFinishedForDisk_PERM_result dmErr=-9901 detailErr=10
Sep 5 18:16:38 unknown-c4-2c-03-37-31-6d com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[2005]: 2011-09-05 18:16:38.593 ReportCrash[2005:2703] Saved crash report for repair_packages[1996] version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/repair_packages_2011-09-05-181638_localhost.cra sh
There's other errors in the system.log, but these seem the most pertinent to the problem.
Can anyone please advise on how I repair this, or do I need to buy Disk Warrior and rebuild the directory structure?
Thanks,
GD

Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
Superduper to create a bootable carbon copy and TM for incrementals.
I really don't want to re-install OSX and then recover the components from TM though for several reasons.
Thanks.

Prepping to upgrade from 10.2.8 to 10.4 -- problem with Disk Utility

I have an 17" iMac that I'm preparing to upgrade from 10.2.8 to 10.4. In preparation, I did the following:
* Mounted a new external HD (LaCie) (my second one)
* Backed-up all personal files / folders to the new drive
* Ran Software Update to check for any recent updates - updated iTunes (6.0.3) + an iPod update
* Ran Disk Utility to repair permissions (which I do whenever I've installed or deteted software) -- Have never had any issues, but this is where my problem started.
Repair permissions hangs at the end (status bar to the very end), and it appears to be working on permissions related to iTunes (sorry, will have to run Disk Utility again and follow-up with the specifics). I ran it twice with the same result.
I saw other threads suggesting that the problem may be with the latest iTunes update (recommending moving the iTunes application folder to the desktop and rerunning Disk Utility), but it seems specific to 10.3. Could this be an issue with 10.2.8 as well. If I can successfully complete repairs to permissions (with the above workaround), can I proceed with the 10.4 upgrade, and if so, what should I do with the iTunes application folder (keep it on the desktop, or move it back)?
Thanks

Cornelius ... thanks for the follow-up. I went ahead and tried both methods, although I should note that I didn't show the iTunes.pkg or iTunesPhoneDrive.pkg files in the Library>Receipts folder as described in the two approaches. I had no luck at all with Kappy's solution (I moved the one file I did have -- iTunesX.pkg -- and Disk Utility stalled as before). I moved iTunes.pkg back to its original folder, and tried the first method you described. I moved the iTunes app to my desktop, and I was able to successfully repair permissions. I trashed two files (iTunes3.pkg and iTunes4.pkg) and left the iTunesX.pkg file as instructed (again, I don't show the iTunesPhoneDriver.pkg file at all). I reran Disk Utility with the same faulty result.
I suspect it may have something to do with the missing files. Any thoughts on that?
Thanks again.
Max:
Sorry I misunderstood you. Actually you don't move
your iTunes folder at all. Here are a couple of
procedures. Since I have not had to use it I can't
vouch for either, but I have heard both have worked
for others.Just to catalogue the
solutions listed above
Here's what I did, and it worked fine.
1) Move iTunes onto the Desktop.
2) Run Disk Utility
3) Go to HD>Library>Receipts and trash all iTunes
.pkg files EXCEPT for iTunesX.pkg and
iTunesPhoneDriver.pkg
4) empty Trash.
5) move iTune from Desktop back to 'Applications'.
Hey presto. you should now be able to repair
permissions again.
HTH
Kappy’s solution
1. Navigate to the /Library/Receipts/ folder.
2. Locate the iTunes.pkg and iTunesX.pkg files and
move them to the Desktop.
3. Run Disk Utility and repair permissions.
4. Move the .pkg files back into the
/Library/Receipts/ folder.Note that you
are not moving the iTunes folder, but the .pkg files
from the Receipts folder. In the first method you
Trash some of them, in the second you move them back.
But you don't touch the iTunes application as such.
Good luck.
cornelius
PismoG4 550,
100GB 5400 Toshiba internal, 1 GB RAM; Pismo 500 OS X
(10.4.5) Mac OS X (10.4.5) Beige G3 OS
8.6

Known problem with Disk Utility formatting Windows NT drive ?

I have had a strange problem while formatting a newly purchased Iomega USB (Seagate) with version 11.1 (252.4) of Disk Utility (OS 10.5.8). The drive was NTSF and I wanted Mac OS extended. The first attempt failed, unfortunately I didn't note the exact message. I tried again and this time D.U. was stuck on on a wait progress bar with message "not a multiple of 4". Disk Warrior reported disk too severly damaged. Only Drive Genius could properly format the drive. Anyone knows what happened?

I'm not sure what caused the problem you observed, but did you first change the partition scheme to a Mac-friendly one before you tried to do the reformat?
Thanks.
Well, no I didn't and I simply applied "erase to Mac OS extended". Maybe there is a change from earlier versions of D.U. So far and as far as I am aware, D.U. would erase a DOS disk and by default choose the Apple partition scheme. But this default setting could have been changed to GUID with the Intel Macs, or even to DOS if the drive is DOS. This option is hidden in further options in the partition settings along with the DOS partition scheme and unless you decide to partition the drive and not just erase it, it is not visible. As a matter of facts, Drive Genius offers the choice between Mac OS and GUID as you erase the disk.
So this could be the culprit, if for instance D.U. erased to Mac OS extended but kept the DOS partition scheme. It seems unlikely though that the developers didn't take that error possibility into account to include a warning of some sort... but that's what I wanted to make sure.

Problems in disk utility

So yesterday i was using my mac watching a movie with vlc. Then the movie started lagging and didn't respond properly. I tried closing vlc without luck, so then i used the command + alt + esc and closed vlc that way. However, this didn't stop the problem. The screen froze and i had to press the power button for 8 seconds to put a stop to this. I restarted the machine right away, but it stayed on the grey screen with the apple logo and the turning wheel for quite some time. I went to sleep, and sadly i discovered that scrren was still running when i woke up. I have tried every usual command like safe mode and the ctrlcommand+pr. None of them work. So I figured the problem might be with the hd, and decided to start the machine through the install DVD. I started disk utility and attempted to verify the disc. No luck. I get this message:
invalid node structure.
volume check failed.
error: filesystem verify or repair failed.
Since i'm not able to verify the HD, i can't repair or mount it either. as stupid as i am i also forgot to do a backup of the HD. I have a bad feeling that my hd might be dying.
I would really appreciate some help, or thoughts on this matter. Thanks!
i have a macbook pro 17" bought last summer. The new model.
EDIT: i should also mention i have had problems with slow response for a couple of weeks.
Message was edited by: senfo

senfo wrote:
Unfortunatley the verify disc is the only clickable option.
When booted to the install disc and you select the top item on the left side of the DU window?
At least i need to verify the disc to unlock the other options.
Running Verify then allows you to run Repair? Never heard of that, but ok. Run Repair after that.
I have a week or so left of the warranty, so i think i'm going to go ahead and contact apple, hear what they can do about this. If they can't do anything, i'll just buy another HD.
If you're still under warranty, and the HD is the original, and there's no physical damage to the machine, I don't understand why they wouldn't cover it.
And i'll try to save what i can from the HD linking it to a mac as an extern HD. If not, so be it.
This is very important. When you give it to them for repair, that will be the last you ever see of your HD, so saving your data needs to happen before that, or that's something you can ask them to do while you're there in person (they used to charge for HD backups, don't know if they would in this situation).
As scott billings says there is probably nothing i can do other than learn to backup my stuff.
I agree with the "learn" part, but per above, there's lots you can do.
As a graphic design student, i was pretty stupid not doing that in the first place.
No comment needed?
I just pray that the HD is the problem. That's easy replaceable. Since i'm able to start the machine through the install DVD i guess it's not anything wrong with the machine itself, right?
I would agree with your diagnosis, that it's probably just the HD (but as we all know, computers can be good at tricking us).
Did you see my comment on FWTDM in previous post? I'd definitely try that.
Message was edited by: tjk

Problem with Disk Utility

Hi Boy's and Girl's
Since the 10.5.2 Update My MacBooks Disk Utility takes 20 min. to repair disk permissions. Is anyone else seeing this. Disk utility does not report any problems. But 20 min. seems a bit long to me.
any ideas on what could be happening or how to fix this would go a long way to restoring my faith in
my fellow Mac users. :)!
Thanks!!!

J. E. wrote:
Hi Boy's and Girl's
Since the 10.5.2 Update My MacBooks Disk Utility takes 20 min. to repair disk permissions. Is anyone else seeing this. Disk utility does not report any problems. But 20 min. seems a bit long to me.
any ideas on what could be happening or how to fix this would go a long way to restoring my faith > in my fellow Mac users. :)!
Thanks!!!
Your faith in Mac users? I don't understand.
If taking 20 minutes for permission verification is your major problem, you should be happy.
Just check this board for people with real issues.
Since Leopard, Apple has changed the fundamental way the underlying OS works and permissions are checked in a much more rigorous way. There are complete lists of what the permissions should be (ACLs) and these are consulted as the check proceeds.
On my computer, which is reasonably fast, it takes about 6 minutes. I don't consider it an issue of faith, but I also don't sit around and wait for it to complete. My computer is quite capable of multitasking, as am I, and DU runs in the background.
I hope your post was tongue-in-cheek and not a serious complaint.
Again, look at the real issues posters on this board have.

Problems with Disk Utility & Mounting DMG!! Help!!

Hey guys, im a fairly inexperienced mac user anyways I recently bought a IBOOK G3 with Tiger 10.4 and i'm having major issues with Disk Utility and installing applications.
The issues with D.I are that it loads up then I get the error message "Disk Utlity started but a background process needed in Disk Utility didn't start properly. Please quit and restart Disk Utility. And when I do restart it, i get the same error over and over.
Also my second problem is whenever I try to and install DMG files I get the error: "Broken Pipe" and sometimes "Device Not Configured"
I've tried searching for resolutions for each problem but they both involve the other functioning! I'm really at a loss, i've tried using programs like pacifist to reinstall my original files etc and they haven't seemed to help.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you xxx

Hi Kellie, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
The usual reason why updates fail or mess things up, is if Permissions are not fixed before & after every update, with a reboot... you may get a partial update when the installer finds it doesn't have Permissions to change one obscure little part of the OS, leaving you with a mix of OS versions.
Some people get away without Repairing Permissions for years, some for only days.
If Permissions are wrong before applying an update, you could get mixed OS versions, if Directory is the slightest messed up, who knows!
If many Permission are repaired, or any Directory errors are found, you may need to re-apply some the latest/biggest updates.
May even need to do an Archive and Install if you have room on the HD, but saves all your files and gives a new OS...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
I only use Software Update to see what is needed, then get them for real via...
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
That way I can wait a week or so, check the forums for potential problems, and get Permissions & such in order before installing.
Report if there were errors please.

Can't format HDD with Leopard Disk Utility

I have two identical drives P/N: WD 7500AAK (Western Digital 750GB MyBook (USB)). I formatted one drive using 'Disk Utility' under Tiger with a Volume Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with no problem. I am now trying to format the other drive under Lepoard and the formatting fails 100% of the time. The drive will format to Fat16, but not to the desired Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Unfortunately I no longer have a computer with the Tiger OS. Any idea what is going wrong? The drive is useless if I can't format it.

Try partitioning the drive GUID before formatting it. This article explains how to format a drive for Time Machine. Once you have gotten rid of the Master Boot Record you should be able to reformat the drive the way you want.
One poster reported that zeroing out a Maxtor did not get rid of the Master Boot Record but I don't know if that would necessarily be true for a WD drive.

Problem with Disk Utility and with ITunes and with Classic

Greetings. I have had problems with ITunes recently; when I try to open it, it gives me the error message: "The ITunes Music Library file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file."
When I looked at the ITunes discussion section, people had two ideas for other people who had the same problem:
(1) Make sure that the library of music files is write-enabled (which it is) and not locked (it isn't) and
(2) Go to Disk Utility and repair the disk.
Since (1) is not a problem, I am trying (2). However, when I open Disk Utility, it just stays on the window, stating "Gathering disk information..." and proceeds no further.
Perhaps related to these problems, when I try to start up Classic, the window opens, but it gets stuck at the very beginning (stating "Classic starting up using System Folder ...") and proceeds no further.
Can anyone help me with these multiple problems? Thanks in advance.

amandel
The problems you report are different than those relating to the iTunes receipts/DU conflict. Trashing those receipts as suggested is necessary to get DU to repair permissions, but, as I understand it, you couldn't get DU to recognise your drives. And I've seen no posts relating to iTunes 6 and Classic.
I've had the problem you describe before (at least vis-a-vis DU). In principle DU's "Repair Disk" function would fix it, but of course if the disk's don't mount in DU then you can't fix them:)
Therefore fsck is a good solution, or trying DU from the Installer Disk (don't start to install, just let the first installer window appear, go to the menu and choose "Open Disk Utility") and repairing. Then reboot and repair permissions, preferably with DU running from your hard drive.
Maybe you're more of a "don't touch what's still running" kind of person, but it sounds to me like the systems a bit wobbly and needs some tender loving care. You could try a clean up using a program like OnyX as well - it won't do any harm.
Robert
G4 PB Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Having Problems with Disk Utility

Hi Everyone,
Not sure if this is the appropreiate area to post this question but I did not know where else to post it. I tried repairing permissions on my emac and I keep getting an error message saying that disk utility lost conection with Tool Management. Has anyone else had this problem? Do you know what I can do to correct it?
Rob

Try either of the links in this post

Super laggy, problems with disk utility: ardagent?

my macbook has been laggy i'd say for about a month now -- super SLOW, lots of rainbow waiting mans going on...
cpu: user: 4%, system: 2%, Idle: 98%
right now i'm only running safari and mail and it's uber slow... i don't know what to do. ran disk utility.. here are the results!
120.03 gb internal sata disk: "Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired."
then pressed "repair disk permissions" and it told me:
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
then ran disk permissions on my hd and it said:
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
is this what's making is slow? what should i doooo?
help. PLEASE.

B.Murph wrote:
my macbook has been laggy i'd say for about a month now -- super SLOW, lots of rainbow waiting mans going on...
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
is this what's making is slow? what should i doooo?
No. That's normal. See http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448
You may have a hard drive problem. How full is it? OSX needs considerable room to operate; a rule of thumb is 15% free space.
If that's not it, try running this: [Intel-based Macs: Using Apple Hardware Test|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509].
and/or the (free) Rember, a heavy-duty memory tester, from: http://www.kelleycomputing.net/

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