Power PC G5 -,"The volume%@needs to be repaired."1)

Hi folks, turned on our G5 this morning to be met with our usual screen saver, but no Dock, no hard drive on the desktop, no apple logo no finder in the top left corner and everything to the right of that apart from spotlight showing. Restarted the computer holding down the shift key with everything seeming as normal now. Restarted again and every thing worked and looked normal, so I went into Disc Utility to verify the disk but this message appeared before end of verifying -
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
*Invalid directory item count* - this line in red
(It should be 42 instead of 41)
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
*volume %@ needs to be repaired.",1)* - this line in red
Macintosh HD
*Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit* - this line in red
1 HFS volume checked
*Volume needs repair* - this line in red
What does this mean ? will something like disc warrior fix this ? or can some one please help with any suggestions.
Martin

Hi Martin;
DiskWarroir will fix it.
Allan

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