How to run a boot disk or flash card

как запустить загрузочный диск или флэш-карту, положить в первую очередь, но все же начинает с жесткого диска

Just insert your installer DVD (the one that came with your computer) and run Disk Utility from that to repair your drive.
The reason you could only verify and not repair when running DU from your boot drive is you cannot repair the boot drive while booted from it.  Hence the requirement of booting from a different disk .  A DVD is a disk, and the installer DVD is already a bootable disk.  So no need to create one of your own (other than cloning the DVD as a backup of course).
And as steve359 says, yes, you should have backups.  Using popular backup utilities like Carbon Copy Cloner and Super Duper to make bootable backups is convenient and of course you then have backups of your main drive in case it catastrophically fails.
Oh, and to answer the specific exact question of the title of this thread ("Re: How To Create A Boot Disk"), sort of tangential to the problem at hand, get yourself a small disk (even, say about 16GB to 32GB usb flash drive will do) and install the system on it (probably custom install to avoid needless crap).  In the case of a usb flash drive, it won't be any speed daemon, but if that's all you got in some emergency, who cares?

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