HT1782 disk utility wont fix my hard drive please help!!! it has assignments on it

hey i usually use disk utility to fix my hard drive problems of been invisible, but lately, doing disk utility and repairing the disk doesn't seem to work anymore? do you guys have any other suggestions, its a seagate go flex hard drive

You need to boot to recovery mode to repair the boot drive (partition containing the operating system). Hold cmd+r on boot up, or hold the alt key and select recovery when you are given the options of what partition to boot to.

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I have macbook pro 13" I want to know how to copy files from my mac to the external Toshiba Hard Drive. I can't even delete files from my external hard drive. please help me my macbook HD is almost full and I have to copy my images to the Toshiba HD

I have macbook pro 13" I want to know how to copy files from my mac to the external Toshiba Hard Drive. I can't even delete files from my external hard drive. please help me my macbook HD is almost full and I have to copy my images to the Toshiba HD

To delete files from your external HDD, attach it to your MBP and drag the unwanted files to trash and then empty trash.
Then you select the files that you want to transfer by 'drag and drop' to the external HDD and trash the files on your MBP.
Ciao.

G4 disk utility does not see hard drive

I am helping someone with a G4 Quicksilver. She is running 10.4 but only has disks for 10.1 and 10.2. When I boot with the 10.2 CD, disk utility does not see the hard drive. I was thinking of connecting her computer to my MacBookPro (Intel, 10.5) via target disk mode and then running Disk Utility. Is that crazy? She is suffering from slow startup and grey screen. I've disconnected the periferals, safe booted, reset PRAM. She really needs Disk Utility.

with the 10.2 CD, disk utility does not see the hard drive.
Disk Utility from 10.2 should see the hard drive (the drive name should appear in the left box). If it does not, the drive is malfunctioning or has a loose cable.
If you attempt to Verify, it will complain that there are illegal values in reserved fields in several different record types. Using this older Disk Utility to repair a 10.4 disk may cause more problems than it solves.
As Tom \[Texas Mac Man] says, you should only repair 10.4 and later disks with 10.4 and later Disk Utility:
HT2648- Only use Mac OS X 10.4-compatible disk utilities with Mac OS X 10.4 volumes
• If you boot the regular Hard Drive (no CD/DVD required) while holding down the Shift key, it will do a quick check of the Hard Drive, then boot up in "Safe Mode". This will fix any simple Disk problems.
• 10.4.3 and later can do a Disk Utility Verify of the Boot drive, "live" (but cannot Repair "live").

TS1440 If disk utility cannot identify any hard drive

if disk utility can't identify the hard drive(i changed three different),then what?

It could be a hardware failure. If Disk Utility can't see the drive, usually the directory is so badly damaged that it doesn't show up, or it could be hardware. I usually turn to a 3rd party utility called Disk Warrior. Its saved me a bunch of times. I have seen it bring drives back to life that I was pretty sure were gone. http://www.alsoft.com
Can you verify that the drive is running? Can you hear it spin up?
Its not clear to me if you are saying that you tried 3 different hard drives, is that correct? Internal or external?

Need to run Disk Utility from OSX Disk to fix my hard drive.. help!

I have a newish early 2010 Macbook Pro. The standard 10.6 DVD will NOT boot my computer and yet I need to boot to DVD to use Disk Utility..
I'm nowhere near my restore disk so using that is not an option. Is there anything I can do to boot to "single user" mode and run Disk Utility so it can repair my HD?
Thanks,
Ricardo

Without your discs you're really out of luck. The 10.6 SL DVD contains too early a version to boot your computer. You would need a retail disc with a version of SL later than the one that came installed on it. If it came with 10.6.3 or earlier then the latest retail copies of SL should be 10.6.4 and would boot the computer.
Meanwhile if the computer is functional download and install AppleJack - CNet Downloads or MacUpdate. Read the documentation then run the utility.
If your computer is not functional then you can try this:
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.

Can I Use Disk Utility from an External Hard Drive?

I would like to use Disk Utility to verify and/or repair my hard drive. I am too lazy to run this from my install disk. Can I merely copy the application to my external hard drive and launch it from there? Would this work successfully? Could it damage anything? Thanks!

Hi! You can't repair a disk that you are booted from so you could run the repair disk function IF you are booted from another volume such as a bootable internal or external drive or the install disc. You'll have to clone your boot drive and repair from the clone after booting to it. Tom

Disk Utility -- order of internal hard drives in drive list?

I just upgraded my Mac Pro with two additional hard drives, installed in Bay 2 and Bay 3. Both drives are the same, Western Digital 250GB model WD2500KS. The stock drive is a 250GB Seagate.
My question is in regards to the order in which the drives appear in the list of drives (left-column) of Disk Utility. In other Macs I've owned, the drive installed into the first, or "main" internal drive bay would show up at the top of the list, with subsequent drives ordered below.
On my Mac Pro, with the drives installed as described above, the WD drive installed in Bay 2 shows up first in the list (at the top), then the Seagate (Bay 1) second, then the WD drive in Bay 3 third.
Now admittedly, this is not really an issue, as the drives work fine and I can manage them in Disk Utility without problems. I'm just curious as to why they are lining up out of the usual "order"? Is there a way to rearrange them in the list? I'd actually prefer to have my startup drive (Bay 1) listed first, with the other two BELOW that drive. Is there a preference file I can alter, or some other way of manually ordering them?
I tried zapping PRAM, which did not help. I also tried uninstalling the drive in Bay 2 and then reinstalling it. This actually worked temporarily. When I rebooted, the Bay 2 (WD) drive showed up in the list below the Bay 1 drive (Seagate) as desired. But upon another restart, it showed up at the top of the list again! Strange behavior.
Any thoughts?
I am running Tiger 10.4.10 on a Mac Pro 2.66 GHz Quad.
Best,
Alan

Rick,
I've tried playing around with renaming drives (and partitions), and changing the Finder's view options with respect to the order in which drives are listed (either by name or otherwise), but it doesn't have any effect on the ordering of drives in Disk Utility. Seems like it's a separate deal. I think it does have something to do with which physical drive is seen first by the computer as it boots up (pretty much what was said in the first response), and the order in which disk ID's are assigned. Again, the strange thing is that sometimes it does list the Seagate (Bay 1) first, followed by Bay 2 and 3. But usually not. Most of the time, it lists the drive in Bay 2 (and its respective partitions) first, and then Bay 1 with its partitions, then Bay 3. Odd.
If you have any other ideas I'm all ears!
Best,
Alan

Blinking folder with question mark, and disk utility doesnt recognise hard drive, please help!!!

So today i was using my macbook pro and for some reason my CD/DVD drive was causing noise when i put a DVD inside it, and for some reason it did not recognise my DVD. I force ejected it using the restart and clicking, but after that my computer showed a blinking folder and question mark during start up. I restarted my computer to Recovery HD, but instead it took me to internet Recovery HD (i have mountain lion), and so i went to disk utility to repair my disk, but in the left it did not recognise my hard drive. Please help! Im not that experienced in computing!

Sounds like some sort of power issue and now your drive is not working.
You'll have to take this to Apple for repair.
You should read this if you don't have recent backups of your data off the machine.
My computer is not working, is my personal data lost?

Disk Utility stats vs. Hard Drive "get info"

Trying to backup my hard drive and running into some frustrating issues!
Recent hard drive crash -- used Applejack (Snow Leopard version) to clean up Lion. Bad decision.
Recently moved my iTunes library to external drive.
Wanting to backup internal hard drive using Time Machine but...
DISK UTILITY SAYS...
capacity = 499.25 GB
available = 152.92 GB
used = 346.33 GB
and "GET INFO" ON HARD DRIVE SAYS...
used = 99.95 GB
External is 250 GB capacity and there is NOT 346 gigs of stuff on the internal after having just moved iTunes to a separate 1TB HD...
WHAT IS WRONG?!?!?!?

Heh, heh, even computers get konfuzzed every now and then...

Disk Utility Not Recognizing Hard Drive - PLEASE HELP!!

So, I just bought this Power Mac G4 from a friend to run my Digidesign hardware. I turned it on this afternoon to install the Apple software for the wireless mighty mouse. When I turned the computer on, the second hard drive was not present in Finder, and I could not locate it in Disk Utility.
I have two hard drives present in the computer ... the 120gb main hard drive and this 2nd internal 80gb hard drive. I'm not very "tech savvy" with the comptuer outside of running protools ...
Does anyone know what the problem could be? Or is it likely that the hard drive just fried??
Thanks,
Justin

When two hard drives are attached to the same data ribbon cable, connected to the same IDE controller, one drive must be configured as "master," and the other drive configured as "slave." This is accomplished by placing a plastic jumper (sometimes two jumpers) across a specific pair (or pairs) of pins on the back end of the drive. If the manufacturer didn't apply a label to the drive with jumper designations, the user manual or manufacturer's web site will have the info needed for that specific hard drive. The drive connected at the end of the ribbon cable should be configured as master, and the drive connected to the middle connector as slave. If the 80 GB drive isn't mounting, it's probably configured the same as the 120 GB, so check both drives.

Disk utility used up my hard drive space?

I recently had a hard drive crash and was trying to repair it with disk utilities. I had the bad drive in an external drive case hooked up to my Macbook Pro via usb. During the process Disk Utility used about 20 GB of drive space on the internal drive on the laptop. I'm not sure what it was doing, but as it ran I could watch my available space go down. When the process was done, it said it couldn't repair the disk. Now I can't figure out how to get my drive space back in the internal drive of my Macbook Pro. I have rebooted, repaired permissions and used the Yasu system utility. There is nothing in the trash to be emptied. I can't thnk of anything else. Has anyone else come across this happening?

Use a disk inventory utility like OmniDiskSweeper to find out what is taking the space.

Can I move old video footage from Disk Utility to an external hard drive, to free up space?

I have a lot of old videos of my students located on Disk Utility.
I need to free up memory, so am wondering if I can move these videos to an external hard drive.
From time to time, I need to access these old videos, either to show to a new choreographer or to pull out a clip for a grant proposal, so I don't want to totally lose access to them.
Thanks so very much!!!

What's the file extension of the DVD in question located in Disk Utility? That's why I was asking for a screenshot. Is that .cdr? Can you do a File>Save As? If it's .cdr can you try dragging it to the external. Doesn't have to go to Disk Utility. Can just be to a folder there. As you drag it does it show with a + inside a green circle? That will mean it's copying it, but leaving the original in place. If it can be moved successfully, you can then remove the original from Disk Utility.
Or just copy (drag) it to your Desktop, then move it over to a folder on the external.
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Disk Utility tells me my hard drive is gone.

I then booted from the Tiger disk, and it told me the same thing - can't repair and to back up and install a new hard drive. This all happened after I accidently unplugged a USB hub from the iBook. I went brain dead and was thinking my digital camera was plugged into that USP port. This happened several hours ago, and the iBook is still working as normal except for Disk Utility.

Just got it today, and now DU is showing everything normal. It saved my rear end a few times back in the OS 8.6 and 9.1 days, and now does it again with 10.4.11. Can't say enough about DW. For some reason, I had to run it twice before everything showed up normal on Disk Utility. Any ideas?

Disk Utility stuck whilst wiping hard drive?

Hey everyone,
I'm getting ready to sell my old Powerbook G4 so booted up from the installation CD, and ran Disk Utility to do a 8 Way Random Write pass on the Mac hard drive before I did a clean install (the disc is Mac OS X 10.3.7).
I selected the top option in the drive panel of Disk Utility (the one saying 92.2GB Hitatchi blablabla) rather than the indented disk beneath it.
All went fine doing the overwrite, however it seems to have become stuck on "Creating Partition Map" - it's been like that for half a day now. Any thoughts? Should I have chosen the indented drive underneath the main description?
All help appreciated!

You're welcome, Simon.
Yes I'm pretty confident it was wiped as the Partition map is created at the end when it hung.
If you have any doubts you could erase it again, but just simply zero all data, that 8 way random write is overkill, but I don't think you need to do it again. You are also going to lay a new OS over a lot of the disk soon too.
There is no indented volume now because you erased it.
Yes reformat it, which will create a new volume, and make sure it is called Macintosh HD.
A very comprehensive guide by Cornelius can be found below, though many of the steps you can skip because they won't be relevant to you, but it covers almost everything.
Formatting, Partitioning, Zeroing a Hard Disk Drive step by step by Cornelius
Also once you have done that you might like to present to the new owner the brand new installation, when they start it up and are presented with the Welcome screen, to which they set up their accounts.
+After installing the new operating system, At the point your registration process starts, abandon the registration, quit and eject the disk and switch of the computer.+
+This will allow the new user a freshly installed system, whereby they can complete the registration process themselves. Make sure you hand on the disks.+
With an erased HD and a newly installed OS, you will be passing a clean bright button!

Using Mac Disk Utility to format external hard drive

Now that I’ve got the LaCie d2 Quadra and am ready to use it, I’m looking for a little guide to using the Mac Disk Utility to format it.
Can anybody point me in the right direction?
many thanks
BAC
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Roger and captfred are correct, you will still need to reset both the _Partition Map Scheme_ to GUID Partition Table and the Format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Connect the External HD and open Disk Utility in your Utilities Folder.
2. Highlight the External HD in the list of drives and select the Partition tab.
3. Under Volume Scheme select _1 Partition_ and click on the Options... button.
4. Select GUID Partition Table in the drop down window and click OK.
5. Set the Format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled), name it and click the Apply button.

HT1782 disk utility wont fix my hard drive please help!!! it has assignments on it

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