Invalid free block count

Hi,
Earlier today I wanted to use the boot camp utility to install WinXP on my MBP. I decided to set the partition to about 60 Gb of space for Windows, but the utility crashed from some reason. (The screen went slightly dim grey and the message "please restart your computer now" appeared).
So I restarted the computer, but now, the 60 Gb I allocated for the new partition has been interpreted by the OS as used space on the Mac HD. I tried running Disk Utility to verify what was going on, and I get the message "Disk repair failed, invalid free block count".
How can I get my free space back? Do I really need to use the Leopard dvd to run disk utility again? I hope not, because I left the dvd at my other house, that's pretty far away from where I am right now. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.

I don't know that Disk Utility can help since it will not repair the corrupted Boot Camp partition. You can run Boot Camp Assistant and see if it will remove the partition. If it cannot, then the next steps can be a gamble so you should backup your OS X partition in case you may need to repartition the drive.
If you cannot remove the partition with Boot Camp, then you can try this:
Open Disk Utility, select the drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the left side bar, then click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. You should now see the partition sizing graphic. Hopefully you should see two partitions. The top partition will be your OS X system volume. The bottom partition should be the one Boot Camp tried to create. Click in the bottom partition to select it (you will see it will be outlined in blue) and click on the "-" button in the lower left corner. The partition should then be removed. Click on the Apply button and wait for the process to complete. If the process fails then you will have to start from scratch and repartition the entire drive. Your OS X installation will be lost. This is why you need to make the backup in advance. If it does work then select the sizing gadget in the lower right corner of the remaining partition and drag it down to the bottom of the sizing window, then click on the Apply button again. Wait for the repartitioning to complete.
Just to be on the safe side I would repair the drive:
Extended Hard Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder. If you need to reformat your startup volume, then you must boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger or Leopard.)
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (only required for Intel Macs) then click on the OK button. Set the number of partitions from the dropdown menu (use 1 partition unless you wish to make more.) Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the volume(s) mount on the Desktop.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
Steps 4-6 are optional but should be used on a drive that has never been formatted before, if the format type is not Mac OS Extended, if the partition scheme has been changed, or if a different operating system (not OS X) has been installed on the drive.

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My Ti-Book has been acting very strange lately so I decided to run the Verify Disk Option in the Disk Utility program. When I ran it, I got a series of messages in red that were:
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Volume needs repair..Invalid volume Free block count..

When I did a scan on the HD through Disk Utilty I got this error..."Volume needs repair...Invalid volume Free block count,,,Should be 65607....instead od 65606."
Is there any application that I can get to fix that error..so that I don't have to Reinstall with the start up disks.. I don't feel like reinstalling everything all over again. Please help or if you can direct me to the area so that I can change the numbers myself...Thank you

Hi Nvrdan1de, and a warm welcome to the forums!
You cannot repair the HD you're booted from, "Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Tiger Mac OS X Install disc , 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."
Then Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it finishes.
Safe Boot... holding Shift key down at bootup. Safe Boot is a special way to start Mac OS X 10.2 or later when troubleshooting.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107392
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http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/

Invalid volume free block count

I have witnessed this insight from the disk repair report
persistently , lately every day . I have noticed among other
things that the bluetooth is , although active , unrecognised
by any system feature designed for that purpose . The list
of actions I have taken from plist removal , restart with USB
leads removed along with all the other leads , to permission
repair , fsck , disk utility and disk warrior have had some
effect but of little duration . The bluetooth was similarly
affected before the latest OSX system wide update and
recovered system wide recognition before this latest step
back . I am interested in some idea's perhaps indicating
the substance of a persistent invalid volume free block
count referral , and a related or not bluetooth recognition
problem with availability but the system blind to it .
Thanks Frederick
G5 Dual 2 GHz PPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4) Seagate 160 G and Seagate 300 G

invalid volume free block count referral
This from a 10.3.9 kb article: (perhaps not updated).
"The volume free block count is a type of cache of the real information stored in the volume bitmap, and the count being off does not mean your volume is damaged in any way. An incorrect volume block count message (block count changed from X to Y) is an example of this type of message."
-mj
[email protected]

Disk utility invalid free block found

I ran Disk Utility because my computer seemed slow. DU said that I needed to restart and repair, but when I did that, DU said that the disc was fine. After re-starting, DU again said that it needed repair. The exact message was: "Invalid free block found (it should be 48071714 instead of 47831211) File system check exit code is 8"
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A disk that has been "repaired" by Disk Utility has already failed and will fail again, probably in a very short period of time.
Back up your Mac if you have not done so already. To learn how to use Time Machine read Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac - Apple Support.
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First time here, and I am not super computer-savvy, so please bear with me as I stumble through this.
I have an iMac running 10.4.11. The other day, my screen suddenly showed a message telling me I had to immediately restart my computer. (I have since learned this was due to "kernel panic.") I ran Disk Utility, received the following message via the log:
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"Is this something a reinstall of OS X would fix or would it be more of a bad HDD that I should replace? The iMac is still under the 1 year warranty until February 5th."
Sounds like Disk Utility cannot fix the hard disk.
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If it were me with an iMac still under warranty, I'd take it in for service and make sure Apple repairs it. You shouldn't have to rely on 3rd party software to repair the hard disk when it's still under warranty. If you do this, when you pick the iMac up, make sure and boot it before you take it home to make sure it's functioning as it should.
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Running an early 2011 13' MBP on ML. For a year - 18 months I've noticed poor performance at times, consistently slow boot (sometimes 5 minutes to usable), occasional lockups and spotlight often reindexes itself and slows the system (much more than my previous MBP), I can't see anything that triggers it. I'm also getting recurring errors in Disk Utility of 'Invalid block count', every time I'll repair the disk (booting into recovery), but after a month of use the error will reappear. About three months ago I erased and reinstalled ML, some of my data was moved over in Time Machine but I didn't restore from it. The erase and reinstall hasn't made any difference and I'm still seeing the same issues. Hard disk SMART status appears to be fine.
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Hi Everyone,
I seem to be getting an error message when i run Disk Utility, it says "Invalid Block Count, your disk is corrupt and needs to be repaired".
I then repair it using the Lion recovery disk and it repairs it. Maybe a month or so down the line it appears again I then do the same and the end result is the same, can anyone help with this as it is worrying me.
Also is there any way you can get rid of the bad sectors in the HDD when problems appear?
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See
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Use your install disc instead ...
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Hi everyone!
I'm hoping that someone can shed some light on this issue, because I'm just about to lose my mind trying to figure it out!
I manage a small companies' network of approximately 35 Apple Macintosh computers. All the computers are newer 2009 or later MacBook Pros and 2009 or later iMac running Mac OS 10.5.8 or 10.6.6.
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Hi Thomas!
Thanks for your advice!
I doubt that the drives are dying for the following reasons:
1. The computers are fairly new
2. I do check the SMART status every time I perform monthly diagnostics, and the affected units' drives always report back ok
As for backing them up, I will certainly attempt do so more frequently.
I have to believe that the problem must be caused by the way in which the affected users handle their computers; although when I ask them, they always assure me that they properly shut down and/or restart their computers.
As for the possibility that a program may be causing the issue, since everyone in this company uses the same software, I would expect this problem to affect considerably more systems than it presently does.
I will continue to troubleshoot this problem and (hopefully) discover its cause once and for all.
It's these sorts of problems that will one day do me in...career-wise, anyways.
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