Macbook Disk Repair

My Macbook with 10.6.8 says it needs repaired in Disk Utility.
I no longer have the disks that came with the Macbook but I also own a Macbook Pro with an install disk with 10.6.7 on it.
Is it possible to use the disks from a Macbook Pro 10.6.7 to boot and repair the Macbook?
I only need to use disk utility on the install disk - I do not intend to install from the disk.

Your MacBook will not boot from the MBP's install disk, which is a prerequisite for doing disk repair. You may want to try one of the other (3rd party) disk utilities such as Alsoft's Disk Warrior or AppleJack.
You can also contact Apple (at the appropriate phone number on this page) to get a copy of the disk that came with your computer. Expect a small charge for replacement.
Best of luck.

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Cant start up on my Macbook pro. All I get is a grey spinning wheel. Tried all the Startup key combinations and nothing works. I reset the NVRAM and nothing. I booted with start up disk , ran disk repair and all is ok. Tried to re-install OS but when I ge

Can not start up on my Macbook pro. All I get is a grey spinning wheel. Tried all the Startup key combinations and nothing works. I reset the NVRAM and nothing. I booted with start up disk , ran disk repair and all is ok. Tried to re-install OS but when I get to designating drive its blank. When I go to startup disk there is a "?" mark. When I restart under startup disk search for a drive it still comes up with nothing. Before I got the grey spinning wheel I had a locked screen. Could not move curser or click on anything. Finally just shut down. Thank you in advance for any help!

Shouldn't still have a 'beachballing'... if the drive is being found and the system is trying to boot from it but is having problems, I would suggest looking over ds store's user tip - Step by step to fix your Mac.
It's likely either something corrupt in your system files or a failing hard drive. But follow ds's steps until you find the cause of the problem.
Good luck,
Clinton

Im having trouble getting my macbook pro to boot up after a fail safe boot, im getting as far as the grey screen with the apple loggo. so im trying to run a disk repair but is saying the disk is locked, how do i unlock disk??

Im having trouble getting my macbook pro to boot up after a fail safe boot, im getting as far as the grey screen with the apple loggo. so im trying to run a disk repair but is saying the disk is locked, how do i unlock disk??

Some clarification may help.
You say you cannot boot normally. It shows a gray screen with the Apple logo.
Did you say it will boot successfully in Safe Mode (boot, then hold down the Shift key)?
How did you boot the machine to run Disk Utility? (Which keyboard combinations)?

Macbook pro will not restart after failed disk repair

This has happened twice in one week.
A routine disk verify was performed and returned errors. I reboot into the recovery drive and run disk utility. To validate the first finding, I run disk verify again. Same failure. Then I run repair disk. Disk repair fails. After this, the system will not boot. Now, even the disk utility 'sees' the main particitian, but it's grayed out. when i go to retore Lion, the main partition is not seen at all.
The kicker is that two different hard drives are involved. The first is a 500 gb Western Digital and the second is a 750 gb seagate. System is a mid-2009 MBP with 8gb ram.
I performed a full system backup this weekend but do not have it with me and will not have access to it until this weekend. Any help out there? Or am I just screwed?

Oh by the way, a mid-2009 MacBook Pro would not have 10.4.6. In fact it might not even have 10.6.4. 10.6.4 didn't get prebundled until June 15, 2010. So where you get 10.4.6 on your signature, that confused people as to what you really have.

I have a MacBook Pro, it recently started freezing upon startup. It would get to a blue screen and just sit there. I've tried booting in safemode to run disk repair and still doesnt help. If I do manage to get past the blue screen, it still freezes

My mac keeps freezing upon startup. It will get to the blue screen and promptly freeze. If I manage to get past the blue screen, and open up youtube on google chrome, it will freeze before it loads youtube. I've tried safeboot and disk repair, nothing seems to work. I even tried to factory reset it but it wont connect to my internet when I reboot with power + option.. any ideas?

This can be used to boot the machine and delelte enough files to get it to boot normally.
.Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive
Read about storage drive so you can store your extra stuff.
Most commonly used backup methods
Also here to see how a full boot drive slows the machine down
Why is my computer slow?

Help! 13" macbook pro will not boot. Tried running disk repair from HD recovery, not repairable. Trying to reinstall OSx Lion, says disc is locked. Do I have to erase the drive and lose everything? I also have Bootcamp installed, will boot to Win OK

Tried running disk repair from HD recovery, not repairable. Trying to reinstall OSx Lion, says disc is locked. Do I have to erase the drive and lose everything? I also have Bootcamp installed, will boot to Windows no problem.

Hotrodmkviii,
try rebooting in Recovery mode, but when you reach the Mac OS X Utilities menu, run Terminal (from Utilities in the menu bar) instead. Inside the Terminal window, give it the following command, and then press the Return key:
diskutil list
Please include in your reply the output from that command.

My MacBook Pro crashes, can only start by holding down Power Button. Disk Repair didn't help.

I can get it started when I hold the button down, but then it's extremely slow. What can I do? I ran disk repair yesterday, then it worked fine, right until it just crashed an hour ago while I tried to wake it from 'sleep mode'.
I thankfully got to update my Time Machine on my external harddrive yesterday when I finally got it working.
Anyone who can tell if there's anything I can do to get it up and running again?

If this started happening without your having made any changes and without a warning of low disk space, then it's likely that the boot drive is failing, or that there's some other hardware fault. Run the Apple Hardware Test or Apple Diagnostics.
Even if the test is negative, you should make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store to have the machine tested more thoroughly.

Disk repair failed / should I reformat my drive / how to format and restore

I have a MacBook Pro late 2011 model and upgraded to Yosemite. The performance on my MB is ok, but just out of curiousity I ran a disk verify, and was told I needed to reboot, hold down CMD / R and run disk repair. I did so and the repair failed. I was promoted to backup and reformat/restore.
Now, I do backup everything using time machine (not sure though if Parallels image is backed up). I do not however have any install disks for Mac OS.
My questions:
1. Should I even bother reformatting my HD?
2. How do I go about formatting the HD and then re-installing the OS and all of my apps, particularly given that I have no DVD
Any thoughts are appreciated. Thank you

If you have extra external HDD, make clone backup with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!, then,
1) boot from external clone backup drive.
2) reformat internal HDD.
3) restore from clone backup drive with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!.

Trying to do Disk Repair but get beeping.

I need to do a Disk Repair through the Disk Utility function off my Snow Leopard Installation disc. However, once my Macbook Pro restarts, it won't take me to the OSX installation window. Instead, I remain stuck at the startup grey Apple screen, and get 3 beeps repeatedly. These beeps have only happened when I try to open the Installation disc. It has never happened to me when I turn on my computer normally without the installation disc.
I've also noticed that my laptop will randomly freeze sometimes with a spinning cursor when I barely even have an internet window open, no other applications running. I don't know if this problem is related to the issue above.
This is a 2011 model. Don't know if these specs will help at all (total tech newb here).
Processor: 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

1) 3 long tones, 3 short tones, 3 long tones = Firmware restoration from CD in process.
2) 3 successive tones, a 5-second pause, 3 successive tones = RAM does not pass data integrity check
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Disk repair utility & printer issue

I will admit right now that until last night, have never touched an iMac but I have a friend that due to health issues, needs a hand. Can I ask a couple of questions of this forum?
1: She has an external Lacie H/D that is making wierd noises after being knocked over. Her backup software says to run the Disk Repair Utility. I haven't the slightest idea where to find this Disk Repair Utility, nor if I can run it on an external drive.
2: Her printer, mac book and iMac were recently moved from one location to another home. I need her printer connected wirelessly to both computers. I was able to get her Macbook connected but I am having issues with iMac. Can I uninstall her printer and reinstall? Not even sure how to do that basic process so advice would be appreciated.

Disk Utility should be able to check the LaCie - whether it will be able to complete any repairs that may be needed will become obvious when it's attempted. Disk Utility is normally in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder.
Regarding the printer, yes you can uninstall it in System Preferences>Printers & Scanners (or similar wording depending on version of OS X). The +/- buttons add/remove printers.
If you still have problems, post back.

External hard drive won't mount, even after disk repair.

My Toshiba external hard drive won't mount on my MacBook Pro 10.8.5. I can see it in my disk repair, and when I repair, "the partition map appears to be ok." But I can't access the icon to be able to open the hard drive contents on my desktop. Help!

Hello maccynicwhoalwayshasmacs,
Thanks for the question. After reviewing your post, it sounds like trouble with an external HD mounting. I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help you resolve or isolate the issue.
USB and FireWire Quick Assist
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Have a nice day,
Mario

Disk Repair For A DYI Fusion

About 4 months ago I purchased a solid state drive and installed it with a regular drive (installed where the optical drive was originally located) in a Macbook Pro OS 10.8.4, 2.8 ghz i7 Core. I followed directions provided by Other World Computing and created a fusion drive using the two disks. Everything has been working great and the fusion is smokin fast.
Prior to the fusion installation I always ran the disk utility or disk warror to look for little glitches on my drive. The issue is when I boot from the recovery disk or a usb startup the two drives are shown seperately rather than one fusion drive.
So the question is can I run disk repair on each of the disks seperately without harming my fusion setup, or is there some other way to have a repair utility to recogonize the fusion set up on the two disks.
I am not having major issues but in the past found that doing a check like this can be helpful.

Have you updated DiskWarrior to 4.4? According to the Alsoft site, it as compatible with Fusion Drives:
http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/support.html#Fusion
MtD

Disk Repair Help Please

Hi,
I'm stuck - Verify Disk tells me to repair it.
I'm on 10.6.7 and put in my Install disc 1 (10.4.6) and Press C
It keeps spitting the disc out - at boot or even booted.
Cannot get to Utilities > Disk Repair - what stupid thing am I missing please?
Thanks,
David

dacio1 wrote:
I have a Mini at work with Snow on it if you're around tomorrow pls?
I'll be here on and off all day Monday.
I'll post this now though. You can hook up your MacBook to the Mini using Target Disk Mode and repair the MacBook using the Mini's Disk Utility's Disk Repair on the Macbook hard drive.
DALE

Disk repair failed how can I back up my files when I can't boot from the start up disk

When disk repair fails, and I can't boot from the hard drive how can I get to my files to back them up. I have a seagate 1 TB connected to the USB port.

Perubbit,
which model MacBook Pro do you have, and which version of OS X is installed on it?

Since hard drive restore, backup gives Disk Repair, Read-only errors

Hi all -
After a hard drive crash last week, I restored the new HD using my historically reliable wireless Time Capsule (TC) with Time Machine (TM). But ever since, backups have ceased to work. Now, TM spins for about an hour before returning the following errors in sequence:
(1) DISK REPAIR: "The disk 'Backup of [my name] Macbook' was not repairable by this computer. It is being made available to you with limited functionality. You must back up your data and reformat the disk as soon as possible."
(2) TIME MACHINE ERROR: The backup volume is read only. To select a different volume, open System Preferences and choose Time Machine."
I very much doubt there is an actual problem with the TC disk itself; my wife's iBook G4 continues to backup to it without any problem whatsoever. Related threads have suggested:
a) doing clever things with Preferences, such as deleting the com.apple.TimeMachine.plist file and re-booting. However, for some reason (perhaps related to the source of the problem?) I have no such file...
b) using Disk Utility to re-format and/or re-partition (these terms mean little to me) the TC disk. But my Disk Utility doesn't see the TC. (Perhaps related, I no longer actually see the little backup disk icon on the desktop.) And as I've said, I doubt very much it's the TC disk itself that it is the problem.
I have of course tried re-booting everything, as well as un-mounting and re-mounting the TC: Computer, heal thyself! No luck.
Any guidance is appreciated...
(PS If there's a log file I should post that might help with diagnostics, just let me know where to find it.)

I have suffered the same error messages, but without a hard disk crash before it.
I copied the backup-file from the TC to a separate drive, erased the TC, re-installed it, copied the backup-file to the TC en re-initiated TM only to be welcomed with the 'The backup volume is read only'-message again.
Beats me why this happened. Most frustrating part, however, is that I am not able to restore from the backup-file. Any suggestions are highly appreciated!

Macbook Disk Repair

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