Mac OS 10.5.6 Installer Disc Utility

Can anyone show me how to get to the Utility menu on a fresh Install of Mac 10.5.6 using the Installer disc? I need to create a RAID volume before I install the OS onto my new Mac Pro. On the RAID Utility User Manual, it said once we started with the Installer, we can select from the Utility menu to perform RAID setup prior to Installing the OS. However, I tried several times, I only got to the Language selection screen and then it went onto the Installation.

V.K. wrote:
actually, menu bar on the install DVD is autohidden for some mysterious reason and you have to mouse over to the top of the screen to make it visible.
I have never seen this behavior on any Leopard or system disc I own. Basically, as soon as the language screen disappears, the installer main window opens in the center of the screen & after at most a very brief delay, so does the menu bar, regardless of where the mouse pointer is.

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How do I do this: "This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk?"

"This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk."

Stick the disk in, reboot holding c.
Disk Utility is a menu option about the 2 or 3rd screen in the installer. (don't install OS X!)
Because your booted form the installer disk, you can repair the disk.
Quit and exit the installer and reboot.
If your drive is not repaired, make a note of all what it says, for Apple to use.
Reboot and get your files off to a external drive,
Take the note and your comptuer to Apple for a warranty/Apple care call, they will replace the drive.

I have tried to repair my disk and this is the message I get: "Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use disk Utility to repair" How do I correctly perform this action?

I have a boot disk that needs repair and I would like to know the correct way to repair this disk using another install disc. I guess there is an issue with the volume free block count.
Please advise.
Thanks.

Insert/connect that disk if needed, start up with the Option key held down, tab to it, and press Enter. If it's a Mac OS X install DVD, choose Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. If it's a different Mac OS X installation, open the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder. Repair the drive.
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Error message during installation of Lion..."The disc is not formatted for mac os extended (journaled). But it is according to disc utility and won't finish installing.

I go to disc utility and verify and repair disc permissions. Doesn't work. I try to enable journalling but it isn't highlighted and am not able to do that as well.

I meet all those requirements. core 2 duo and latest snow leopard. I have a late 2006 mac book. Maybe that's why. Its telling me that my hard drive isn't formatted correctly but it is formatted as they ask. It's not the hard drive that came with the macbook though.

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I have a 15 inch Macbook Pro, bought two years ago. After all that time its become kind of.. clogged, slowing down, more prone to crashing, so I wanted to reinstall OS X.
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Empty the trash.
Restart your mac.
hpr3
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When I go to disc utility, repair disc is not functioning, neither is the verify disc. There is a statement that says,"start up from the mac OS X intallation disc and then choose utilities Disk utility. However there is no option for that

Verify disc and repair disc are not working. They give me the option to install the "installation disc" click on utilities>Disk utility from there. When I try this, there is no option to do this that I can find. Can anyone help me to do this?

You can't run Repair Disk from the Utilities folder. With 10.4, 10.5 or 10.6 put your install DVD into the optical drive (CD/DVD drive) and reboot. Be sure to either use the disc that came with your Mac, or, if you installed a later Mac OS X version from disc, use the newer disc. As soon as you hear the boot chime, hold down the "c" key on your keyboard (or the Option Key until the Install Disk shows up) until the apple shows up. That will force your MacBook to boot from the install DVD in the optical drive.
Or if you are running 10.7 Lion or 10.8 Mountain Lion, boot from the recovery partition (Command +R on boot) and use Disk Utility to repair your OS 10.7 or 10.8 partition.
When it does start up, you'll see a panel asking you to choose your language. Choose your language and 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?
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hi there!
the disk in my Mac desktop need repairing.
the Disc Utility is asking me to start the computer by running the Mac OS X TIGER installation disc and then repair the disc.
my question is;
by running the disc MAC OS X TIGER in order to repair it do i run the risk of downgrading the actual operating system of Lion to Tiger (which is 5 years old)?
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Kolindo wrote:
the computer was bought 5 years ago so i have only one disc which is Tiger.
the lion was bought on line 4 months ago so i have no disc.
so it meas that i will be downgrading 5 years back if go ahead and do it?
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