I have gotten the message The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.  I don't have the discs. Help!

I received a hand-me-down MacBook Pro (mine was stolen).  I tried to install a full backup from my Time Machine using Migration Assistant, it froze during the install so I force quit the Migration Assistant.  Since then I have had to re-establish my administrator ID and password.  I can now only boot up in safe mode, I get the message that my HD is full (only 8.67GB available out of 199GB), and to make matters worse I now get the message "The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired".  I don't have the install discs, and I'm not very tech savvy.  Can anyone help me?

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    Hello there,
    There's a problem with my MacBook.
    Yesterday I've made a back-up, because I would like to reinstall everything.
    But it doesn't work.
    The laptop doesn't start up from the installation disc holding the C. Nothing happens.
    When I open the CD via the finder and start the installation, it fails at some point. It gives an error that maybe the CD is dirty or something. That's not true.
    I thought there was something wrong with the CD, but it's more then that.
    I did the disk repair, and it said as followed: The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
    The problem is that I can't repair the volume, just because of the CD problem. It's really annoying, the only solution is to reinstall, but it doesn't work at all.
    Can anybody help me?
    Thanks a lot!
    Bye

    Put your install DVD into the optical drive and reboot. As soon as you hear the boot chime, hold down the Option key until the Install Disk shows up then click on the Install disk and then the arrow below it. That will force your MacBook to boot from the install DVD in the optical drive.
    When it does start up, you'll see a panel asking you to choose your language. Just press the Return key on your keyboard once. It will then present you with an Installation window. Completely ignore this window and click on Utilities in the top menu and scroll down to Disk Utility and click it. When it comes up is your Hard Drive in the list on the left?
    If it is then click on the Mac OS partition of your hard drive in the left hand list. Then select the First Aid Tab and run Repair Disk. The Repair Disk button won't be available until you've clicked on the Mac OS partition on your hard drive. If that repairs any problems run it again until the green OK appears and then run Repair Permissions.

  • The Volume Disk was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.

    The Volume Disk was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.How can i fix this problem.

    AHT will not scan for or find bad disk drive sector blocks, it might tell you your SATA chip.... no it won't do that either.... <g>
    In a perfect universe Disk Utility First Aid, run from another hard drive ideally, or lacking that run from DVD. The shift key is suppose to check the drive journal and directory for out of sync errors and delete and rebuild extension and other system caches.
    But you might want to backup first, and you could install OS X on another drive for one thing, or try using Disk Utility : Restore tab to make a full system copy of everything to another hard drive.
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    I have an early MBA and recently it has taken up to 3 minutes plus to boot up so I checked in Dick Utility and got the following message when I went to verify disc:
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    Error: The disck needs to be repaired...use Disk Utility to repair this disk.
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    A Snow Leopard disk should work, though you should run Disk Utility from the Installer menu and do a disk repair on the hard drive. If it repairs successfully, you might not have to reinstall SL. If it can't successfully repair, then you'll probably need to erase the drive and then reinstall.
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    Message was edited by: Dave Sawyer

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