My Disk Utility has disappeared

Hello. My disk utility has disappeared, i can't find. I used the Apple Hardware Test on the Install Disc but it does not find error. What can i do? Help me please. Thank you

You can use your original install disc and Pacifist:
http://www.charlessoft.com/
That should get it back for you.

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'Disk Utility has lost connection with Disk Management Tool' w/ RAID 10 set

Using 4 internal drives, I have specified the following setup for each:
2 partitions, 1 'speed' of 5 GB and 1 'data' of whatever remains.
The 4 speed partitions stripe to a single RAID volume correctly.
The 4 data partitions are used to make a RAID 10 volume as follows:
The first 2 data partitions are mirrored to make a 'data-A'
The next 2 data partitions are mirrored to make a 'data-B'
These complete correctly.
Upon attempting to strip data-A and data-B in order to finish the RAID 10 setup, Disk Utility quits with the following message:
"Disk Utility has lost connection with the Disk Management Tool and cannot continue. Please quit and relaunch Disk Utility'.
A search here and on the nets reveals only that this message appeared in 10.3.x when attempting to repair disk permissions and had to do with a rogue iTunes support file. This is occurring on a blank system (no iTunes installed) so I don't think its the same cause.
Note that I was able to complete this setup under Tiger several times without issue, so it seems to be unique to Leopard. Does anyone know what is going on and hopefully suggest a workaround?

To answer my own issue and leave a marker here for others, I was able to successfully set up a RAID 10 partition using diskutil, indicating that the problem is Disk Utility itself and not the RAID implementation.
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Disk Utility has Lost Connection with the Disk Managment Tool

Hi,
For starters, this problem is not associated with the thread that Brian Z. has posted at the top of this forum. Having said that, here's my problem:
I had installed Security Update 2006-003, and Quicktime 7.1. Permissions were repaired before and after each installation, and all went well.
Some hours later, I was experimenting with Apple Remote Desktop. I had activated ARD in the System Preferences>Sharing pane, and it provided me an IP address associated with ARD. I then turned on Airport, and ARD provided me with an IP address associated with that connection. However when I turned off my modem connection, System Preferences>Sharing hung, and had to be Force Quit.
Console Log follows:
===== Mon May 15 2006 ===== 21:09:09 America/Anchorage =====
2006-05-15 21:09:17.488 System Preferences[2732] Can't open input server /Library/InputManagers/Menu Extra Enabler.bundle
2006-05-15 21:09:28.224 System Preferences[2732] ### Error:268435460 File:FileSharing.m Line:308
2006-05-15 21:09:38.230 System Preferences[2732] ### Error:268435460 File:FileSharing.m Line:343
2006-05-15 21:09:48.415 System Preferences[2732] ### Error:268435460 File:FileSharing.m Line:343
Thinking a plist had become corrupted, I trashed the following:
com.apple.systempreferences.plist
com.apple.RemoteDesktop.plist
com.apple.Remotemanagement.plist
com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist.
System Preferences started out very slowly, but then all the panes except Sharing would work ok.
I booted from the install disk and performed a Disk Repair. There were no problems reported.
When I tried to run a Repair Permissions, after about 20 seconds I got the, "Disk Utility has lost connection with the disk management tool and can not continue. Please quit and relaunch Disk Utility."
I quit D.U. and the Installer, and was able to successfully run a Repair Permissions from the D.U. in my Utilities folder. It had no problems to report.
Continuting to troubleshoot the System Preferences problem, I then trashed the com.apple.preferencepanes.cache. This solved my System Preferences>Sharing problem.
However, I am still unable to perform a Repair Permissions after booting from my install disk (I get the subject message). Repairing permissions from the Disk Utility in my Utilies folder works fine.
Any thoughts out there on a logical way to troubleshoot where my problem is? Is there a way to get a console log when I'm running DU from the install disk, or a comparable source??
Thanks,
Bob

I found this crash log that was generated about the time I had problems with System Preferences hanging.
Thoughts?
Bob
Entitled "writeconfig.crash.log"
Host Name: Bobs-Big-Mac.local
Date/Time: 2006-05-15 21:08:17 -0800
OS Version: 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
Report Version: 2
Command: writeconfig
Path: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Admin.framework/Resources/writeconfig
Version: ??? (???)
PID: 2707
Thread: 0
Exception: EXC_BREAKPOINT (0x0006)
Code[0]: 0x00000001
Code[1]: 0x90a8d2c0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 com.apple.Foundation 0x90a8d2c0 _NSRaiseError + 0xf8
1 com.apple.Foundation 0x90a349d8 -[NSConnection sendInvocation:] + 0x6a4
2 com.apple.Foundation 0x90a2d8e0 -[NSObject(NSForwardInvocation) forward::] + 0x198
3 libobjc.A.dylib 0x90866810 objcmsgForward + 0xb0
4 writeconfig 0x0000baac 0x1000 + 0xaaac
5 writeconfig 0x0000ec84 0x1000 + 0xdc84
6 writeconfig 0x0000ad88 0x1000 + 0x9d88
7 writeconfig 0x0000abfc 0x1000 + 0x9bfc
PPC Thread State:
srr0: 0x90a8d2c0 srr1: 0x0202f030 vrsave: 0x00000000
cr: 0x24000442 xer: 0x00000000 lr: 0x90a8d298 ctr: 0x90a23528
r0: 0x00000000 r1: 0xbffff430 r2: 0xa0a204bc r3: 0xa0a34e20
r4: 0x9086eb88 r5: 0x20000000 r6: 0xbffff110 r7: 0x00000000
r8: 0x00000001 r9: 0x0030d370 r10: 0x00000239 r11: 0x28000442
r12: 0x90a23528 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00000000
r16: 0x00000000 r17: 0x00000000 r18: 0x00000000 r19: 0x00000000
r20: 0x00000000 r21: 0x00000000 r22: 0x00000000 r23: 0x00000000
r24: 0x00310680 r25: 0xbffffcd8 r26: 0x00311c50 r27: 0xa0a2af6c
r28: 0xa0a30e7c r29: 0xa0a24ae0 r30: 0x003109a0 r31: 0x90a8d1d0
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"Disk Utility has lost its connection with the Disk Management Tool and cannot continue. Please quit and relaunch Disk Utility." Trying to format my iomega external HD for use with Mac

Hi. Trying to connect iomega ext. HD. i have to reformat for Mac. When i plug in & go to Disk Utility,the external shows up and i'm supposed to click "partition". When i do, a box comes up saying ""Disk Utility has lost its connection with the Disk Management Tool and cannot continue. Please quit and relaunch Disk Utility." I quit and relaunched, same results. After googling my question, i came up with this:
"Disk Utility has lost its connection with the Disk Management Tool and cannot continue. Please quit and relaunch Disk Utility."
(Quitting and reopening Disk Utility does not help.)
The following also appears in Console log:
*** malloc[419]: Deallocation of a pointer not malloced: 0x290a410; This could be a double free(), or free() called with the middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment variable MallocHelp to see tools to help debug : for architecture i386 object: ./Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes malformed object (unknown flavor for flavor number 0 in LC_UNIXTHREAD command 27 can't byte swap it)
Workaround
Quit Disk Utility.
From the Finder's Go menu, choose Go to Folder....
Type the following, then click OK: /Library/Receipts
Temporarily remove these iTunes receipts from /Library/Receipts (sort the folder alphabetically as a list):
iTunes.pkg
iTunes4.pkg
You can put them on the desktop, for example. Do not remove iTunesX.pkg or iTunes Phone Driver.pkg.
Open Disk Utility and repair disk permissions again.
Quit Disk Utility.
Put the removed iTunes receipts back in /Library/Receipts.
Note: This issue does not affect Disk Utility's verify or repair disk features.
All seemed good, for a moment, until, upon going back to Disk Utility after removing itunes4.pkg and putting on desktop (i did not have itunes.pkg to remove) the same thing was happening. When i highlite my iomega ext. on left of page, disk perrmissions is grayed and does not allow me to click on it. Same problem from the start. Can somebody please help me out here? That would soooo awesome. Thanx!

i'm just scared i will do something wrong on my own and lose my data.
You shouldn't be scared of that, because you should already have backups. If you don't have backups, then backing up is the first priority.
Insert the Snow Leopard DVD and restart. When you hear the chime, hold down the C key and keep holding it until the Apple logo appears on the display. You should now see the language selection screen. Select your language, then choose Utilities > Disk Utility from the menu bar. In the Disk Utility window, select the external drive (not the internal). The drive may already have a data partition, in which case there will be another icon below the drive icon. Choose the drive icon, then select the Partition tab. Create a single partition with the default options (GUID partition table, Mac OS X Extended Journaled).
When the partitioning is done, select the startup volume on your internal drive in the DU window. Select the Restore tab. Drag the icon of the startup volume to the "Source" field. Then drag the icon of the newly-created volume on the external drive to the "Destination" field. Make sure you have this right. Then click the Restore button, and the data on your startup volume will be copied to the external drive.

Disk Utility has been Shrinking disk for several hours....

I have an external HD (FW800/GUID) that has 2 partitions in it that I'm trying to reduce the size of one of the partitions to make room for a third without deleting anything on the drive. Disk Utility has been 'shrinking disk' for several hours and I'm debating if it's hanging. I see no activity on the drive, so I'm not sure what's going on.
How long should this typically take to finish?
the partition in question has about 1.3T of data on it and I'm trying to free up about 300G that's unused.
Should I be concerned? How long should I let this go before bailing the app?

What's the chance that the data will be corrupt if I force quit disk utility?
In the middle of repartitioning that has apparently hung? I would guess it would range somewhere from high to certain. You should immediately use Disk Utility to repair both partitions after force-quitting.
I didn't make a backup
I hope you're lucky, but I have the feeling you're about to learn your lesson about not having backups in a very severe way. If the drive cannot be repaired at this point, you may need a file recovery utility like [Data Rescue|http://www.prosofteng.com> or [File Salvage|http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?mainpage=product_info&productsid=1].
In the future, you absolutely must have a minimum of two backups (three copies) of any data you can't afford to lose.

Disk Utility has been trying to make a partition on hard drive for a long time

Disk Utility has been trying to make a partition on hard drive for a long time, I want to make 2nd partition and install the Snow Leopard on 2nd disk,
Lion is very slow on my Early 2011 MBP.

I am using MBP early 2011 with Osx Lion,
Lion was slow for me and I have no external HD to backup my files,
Than I want to make 2 partititon of my internal HD to backup my files to it, and also want to install Snow Leopard to that new partition using the CDs comes with my MBP.
After that.
I was using Disk Utility to partition my MBP to install Snow Leopard to my second part. While partitioning my Disk Utility did not complete and wouldn't continue the process, I waited about 30 minutes to see if it fix itself, so I cancelled it and restart the Mac, upon rebooting I opened Disk Utility to try again and I noticed I lost 400 gigabytes of space. I tried to "Erasing Free Space" but after a couple of minutes it finished and the same problem 400 GBs of lost space.
Is there a way to fix this and regain my lost hard drive space?

Disk utility toolbar disappearing

when using disk utility the toolbar disappears after I open disk util, show toolbar then I close and reopen and the toolbar is gone I have to show it again. any ideas

If E. Chan's suggestions doesn't help...
Open a Finder window. Select your Home folder in the Sidebar on the left. It has a small house icon.
Now open the Library folder then the Preferences folder.
Move the com.apple.DiskUtility.plist file to the Trash.
Restart your Mac. See if that makes a difference.

Array created using Disk Utility keeps disappearing.

I've got a 4-bay Drobo unit that I use for my iTunes and iPhoto libraries. I recently ordered a handful of new 2TB drives to max out the capacity on it.
In order to keep all of my data intact, I installed a couple of drives in a spare 4-bay disk enclosure and used Super Duper to duplicate the Drobo files onto half of the new hard drives. I then pulled two drives out of the Drobo (a 1TB and a 1.5TB) and used Disk Utility to create a concatenated disk set in the spare 4-bay enclosure.
Next step was to use Super Duper to duplicate the libraries from the two new drives (still in the spare 4-bay enclosure) to the new concatenated disk set (also in the 4-bay enclosure).
When that was finished, I pulled the two new 2TB drives out of the 4-bay enclosure and put them into Drobo with the other new drives, fired it up, formatted, and told Super Duper to duplicate the libraries from the concatenated disk set (in the spare 4-bay enclosure) to the newly supersized Drobo.
Maddeningly, the concatenated disk set keeps "unmounting" and disappearing from the Finder - usually right in the middle of a copy operation. I get a handfull of folders and their files, and then "Poof!" it disappears. Restarting the Mac has no effect; I have to unplug and repower the hard drives.
I've got about 1,300GB left to copy over; I can't sit there for thirty straight hours and babysit this setup. Anybody have any idea why this keeps happening?

You don't have a problem and repairing disk permissions does not need to be performed daily or on a regular basis - only after installing software (especially after installing 3rd party software that uses an installer) and as a system troubleshooting procedure only.
Check Maintaining Mac OS X for recommended maintenance for OS X (which isn't much) focusing on the Maintenance Myths section.

Disk utility has no 'partition' tab

I may be asking a really stupid question here, but I hope someone can enlighten me. The disk utility app that is on my Powerbook G4 has four tabs, "First Aid", "Erase", "RAID" and "Restore". Everywhere I read, it seems that there should be another tab called "Partition". I have no such tab!
I purchased a new LaCie 320 GB external hard disk. I wanted to partition it for use. Disk Utility seems to be the preferred choice for this. Am I missing something on my computer?

You guys are amazing. Thank you both. I was indeed not clicking on the parent disk name (where it shows XXGB so-and-so disk), rather I was clicking on the child partition name (the disk came preformatted as FAT32). Clicking on the parent name showed the partition tab, and I used it to partition the disk into 2 partitions, one with OSX Extended (for storing stuff) and one with OSX Extended Journaled (where I would keep a bootable clone of my computer).
Yay!!

Disk Utility has been partitioning for about 3 hours now.

Ok so I wanted to partition my internal hard drive for time machine. So I went into Applications and opened up Disk Utility. I then Selected my internal hard drive, adjusted the partitions to the desired sizes and clicked apply. All the options grayed out and the little striped progress bar began moving. This was about 3-4 hours ago and nothing has changed. Someone help please, I'm afraid to force quit it or turn off my mac at the cost of my hard drive.

It's not really a progress bar just an animated blue and white "candy cane-like" bar
If that is the case, that is not a progress indicator, so it hasn't yet started to partition and is stalled. Just stop, there will be no damage.
The question now is why has this happened, and what can you change so that it doesn't happen on your next attempt, but goes to immediate partition, which should not take longer than 30 seconds or so.

Disk Utility - has been modified and will not be repaired.

I am running Disk Utility "Verify Disk Permissions" and "Repair Disk Permissions" then I've encountered an errors below. Please let me know how to get rid of it? Or do I need not to be concerned over it? Thanks.
2009-10-09 21:18:18 +0800: Disk Utility started.
2009-10-09 21:18:27 +0800: Verify permissions for “Macintosh HD”
2009-10-09 21:23:15 +0800: Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
2009-10-09 21:23:59 +0800: Permissions differ on "Library/Application Support/Apple/ParentalControls", should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxr-xr-x .
2009-10-09 21:23:59 +0800: Permissions differ on "Library/Application Support/Apple/ParentalControls/ALRHelperJobs", should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxr-xr-x .
2009-10-09 21:24:14 +0800: Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Reso urces/Locum" has been modified and will not be repaired.
2009-10-09 21:24:22 +0800:
2009-10-09 21:24:22 +0800: Permissions verification complete
2009-10-09 21:24:22 +0800:
2009-10-09 21:24:22 +0800:
2009-10-09 21:25:09 +0800: Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
2009-10-09 21:29:21 +0800: Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
2009-10-09 21:30:07 +0800: Permissions differ on "Library/Application Support/Apple/ParentalControls", should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxr-xr-x .
2009-10-09 21:30:07 +0800: Repaired "Library/Application Support/Apple/ParentalControls".
2009-10-09 21:30:07 +0800: Permissions differ on "Library/Application Support/Apple/ParentalControls/ALRHelperJobs", should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxr-xr-x .
2009-10-09 21:30:07 +0800: Repaired "Library/Application Support/Apple/ParentalControls/ALRHelperJobs".
2009-10-09 21:30:23 +0800: Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Reso urces/Locum" has been modified and will not be repaired.
2009-10-09 21:30:31 +0800:
2009-10-09 21:30:31 +0800: Permissions repair complete
2009-10-09 21:30:31 +0800:
2009-10-09 21:30:31 +0800:

Did you install SL as an upgrade over an existing system? If so I believe the parental controls message may be due to an old ACL. The ARD message is not unusual either. SUID messages should simply be ignored. We all see those. The messages themselves are innocuous. You can safely ignore them as they do not harm.

Disk space has disappeared

I started up Boot Camp Assistant. I set it to set up a new partition of 20MB. After I initiated the process, I noticed that the partition size was get to 42GB, almost the remainder of my hard drive. So I quit Boot Camp assistant from the menu.
Now my hard drive is showing I only have 12 GB left on the hard drive. But I know I had a lot more disk space than this. A disk utility program I have reports I have only 177GB out of 199GB used.
It seems like Boot Camp Asst. created the partition but disk utility reports only one partition, though.
How can I recover this lost space?

Fixed:
1) Reboot computer. As it starts to reboot, hold down command-s to start in single user mode
2) Run fsck -f
3) Reboot. Disk space now reports as it should.

Multiple app crashes, disk utility has no First AId tab

My Apple apps are almost all crashing; Mail, Ical,System Profiler, iChat, and when I try to repair permissions, Disk Utility loks very different and only gives me a screen to restore a disk - no First Aid, in fact no tabs at all.
I verified the disk using my install dvd - it saw no problems.
Before this happened, I installed Journaler, repaired permissions and also backed up to an external drive - initially using Silverkeeper 1.2. When that said system error, I realized it was not the latest version. 1.3 ran fine. Then I (stupidly) used Macjanitor to do clean up. I see now that there is a more recent version of that too. Have I cleaned out some essential file?
I am reading the link on xlab about multiple app crashes and searching the archives here - any help would be deeply appreciated!
Phoebe

It was a classic mistake - I did a backup after the update, and had a setting in Silverkeeper that copied more recent files BACK to the computer from the external drive. Dumb Dumb Dumb... Since parts of my 10.3 System and Apps were more recent than the out of the box Tiger Dvd, I then had a mix of 10.3 and 10.4 trying to work together. Big mess, glad I figured it out. Did a clean install of Tiger, then added all my files from the backup.

Disk Utility has been trying to make a partition on hard drive for 5 hours what happens if I stop it

I have bee trying to make a partition on my mac Book Pro hard drive with disk utility. It says it is modifying partition map for 6 hours now, What happens if I stop this?

gaborneo wrote:
I don't want to erase my whole drive.
Your only erasing the Free Space of your OS X partition, meaning the areas where there is none of your data stored.
Because when Bootcamp works it's going to take some from that to create the Bootcamp partiton for Windows.
If I choose erase does it then give me the option before I press something else and wipe out what I don't want to wipe out just yet?
If you click Erase Free Space it give s a option and then you go.
My dvd player is bust and at the moment...
Well how are you going to install Windows and the drivers?
You didn't read the Bootcamp manual did you?
https://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
IMO, your not up to doing this, I advise you to stop and forget about installing Windows, because your problems are only just started.
Good Luck

After Archive and Install 10Gb of disk space has disappeared!

I was having various minor problems which I have mentioned elsewhere and out of shear frustration I decided to stop wasting any more time and do an Archive and Install - preserving accounts etc.
After the subsequent Software Updates I was horrified to see that my main disk was 10Gb down on what it had been just prior to doing the installation. It was moreso because unlike the original installation I had not installed all the Languages, Fonts and Printers which I would not be using, so I hoped to gain some space - not lose it.
Anybody any ideas where this drive space has gone?
And please nobody suggest the Previous Systems folder - I dealt with that.

Alf Megson wrote:
Do you really want me to answer that question?
yes. I had to ask. I don't know you and I've seen way too many posts by people with similar problems who don't know that one has to empty trash to actually reclaim the missing space.
Boot from the leopard install DVd and repair the startup drive (not permissions). reboot and see if that makes a differences. if not try to find out what's taking all the space. see this post for tools for that.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8188595&#8188595
10GB should not be hard to find.

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