Repair Disk from CD Installer?

Hi
I been having problem with my mac mini for a while now; stalling, not responding and quieting applications. Repairing permission don't help and the Repair Disk 'button' seem to inactive so I click Verify disk and it told me my disk is corrupted and need to repair disk from installer cd. That what I don't know how.
I had upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard last year. Which cd - leopard or snow leopard I should use and how to do it.
Please help. Thanks
JVale

Thomas. I thought I should answer your mentally ******** attack on my grandma (JVale). My grandma was truly thankful that you help her to do what she wanted to do and she did printed your Mac Backup Guide link from your ‘last’ reply for her to read later thinking she'll learn something useful from it.
But when my grandma answer The Hatter respond to her question and advising her to use Disk Warrior and SuperDuper and told him its too complicated for her as a ‘simple computer user’ and worried she may end up not be able to use her mac at all. You jump in and attack her to her reply to The Hatter. If she doesn’t want to use Disk Warrior and SuperDuper its her choice. Being old and still learning about her computer, of course, she won’t feel safe to try to do or use things that she don't know or understand. Why would she want to complicate things when she’s happy with her external drive and back up cd. And what is your right to attack her when her reply was not even for you - it for The Hatter????
My grandma (JVale) maybe a ‘simple computer user’ but for her age she did very well of keeping up with today's technology and not let herself left behind. She bought a mac computer and learn how to use it after someone told her apple computer is easy to learn to use for beginners. Now she’s happy that with her mac she could keep in touch with her relatives overseas through skype, yahoo messenger and yahoo mail and telling us all that we should change from pc to mac.
Why it offend you Thomas that my grandma is just a ‘simple computer user’?!! Tell me. Is your own grandparents or parents understand and can do what you could to computer. Of course, not. Its not their generation. DUMMY! Its a shame that with your superior brain never occur to you the possibility that maybe some of the member of the forum are simple computer user oldies who just want a simple solution to their mac problem. So. Who’s mentally disable now - or as you said yourself, the attitude just plain stinks. Yes. You are mentally disable and stinks! What you said TOTALLY APPLY TO YOU.
Raquel

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HT203176 i have a slow macbook, i ran live disk utilities and said I need to repair disk from a cd. did that, I got volume repaired from the external disk. when I reboot from hdd, then run disk utility, I get the same error message i did b4 repair

i have a slow macbook, i ran live disk utilities (from hard drive), turned out I needed to repair disk from a installation disk. Did that, I got the volume (Hard drive) repaired from the installation disk disk. To this point, great!
When I reboot from hdd, then run disk utility, I get the same error message i did b4 repair. I went thru two rounds of this.....
Can anyone help? thanks

Sorry guys, I don't see how to reply to you so I use reply to "me" basically.
So the error I get is "volume header needs minor repair" and then you need to perform repair from the installation disk message.
I did repair not verify from the disk twice. Every time ending in the "the volume had ha been successfully repaired". Then I reboot from the internal disk. Run disk utilities from it, do verify and get the same error message I got before repair. I hope this can shed some light fr you guys. Sorry I didn't include details in the original
MEssage.

How do i run a Repair Disk from ARD

how do i run a Repair Disk from ARD

have you considered a netboot image and or a safeboot?
With a netboot image you could try repairing the drive remotely. (the down side is this requires a mac os x server to do)
A SafeBoot can be remotely triggered, and it include automatic disk check and repair. (the downside is depending on how the computer is connected to the network, it may not re-connect to the network when safeboot complete and boots into 'safe mode'. ) I find if the computer is connected to the network by a built-in ethernet adapter, I can usually still access the computer in safe mode
Before running a disk repair or permissions repair, it's a good idea to make sure the computer is backed up.
Also, in the case that a NetBoot, Disk Repair, or SafeBoot fails, you would probable want to be able to physically walk over to the computer.
Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck explains that SafeBoot includes Automatic Verify and Repair of Disk.
Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode explains how to use the terminal to configure a computer to SafeBoot into SafeMode. It also explains how to turn off SafeBoot after booting into SafeMode.
cheers!

QUESTION: Running 'repair disk' from installation disks.........

Hi
I am trying to learn the basics of OS maintenance.........
1 question.........
A commonly described maintenance procedure is :
...Booting from the original O S disk that came with the computor and selecting disk utility off that disk, in order to run a 'repair disk' operation.
My question is this: my original installation disk-set is O S X 10.3 . However i have updated to OS X 10.3.9 via the internet in several steps... Once an update to 10.3.?, then 10.3.8 and fianally 10.3.9.
Can i still use the 'disk utility' 'repair disk' procedure from the original disk which is only 10.3 , if i have updated the OS to 10.9 via the internet ? If not, how do i do a 'repair disk' procedure from disk utility ?
thanks for your time.....
d
eMac 800MHz Power PC G4 Superdrive Mac OS X (10.3.9) LACIE - 160GB external HD - external burner

del12,
Not Kappy here...but.....
Judy,
First of all, Welcome to the Discussions!
re: "I repaired permissions using Install CD, I think it's the first version of Panther"
Not to fret, but I would return to your HD>Applications>Utilities>DiskUtility and repair permissions from there. This should have updated permissions that will take care of the new permissions that need to be set for the update increments in the OS since your initial 10.3 install.
As for the symptoms you are seeing, ie. no startup chime, black screen for seconds and hum I would return to the Disk Utility on the install disk #1 and run Repair Disk. Report back any errors it finds.
Does your computer have a Apple Hardware Test CD? If so you may wish to run this to check for any damage it will report.
As for Anacron, CacheOutX, PreferentialTreatment what features of these do you run? Clearing the Caches with CacheOutX for example should only be run for troubleshooting and not general maintenance of the OS.
A very good FAQ by Dr. Smoke for maintenance can be found here.
Hope that helps some,
littleshoulders [:-)
PS. Judy, in the future, if you find a need to post you may wish to start a new topic (even if your problem seems similar) as once a thread is marked answered by the original poster other users here may miss seeing your query for help. If you need help with figuring out how to do that let me know.

Any way to repair disks without the installation CD?

I have the latest version of snow leopard and haven't used my laptop in awhile because I needed to get repairs done on it. Finally repaired it at the apple store, took it home, ran the updates, but disk utility is saying my drive is corrupted and to repair it with the installation disk. I have been looking everywhere and only found the TechTool deluxe CD but can't find my actual installation disks.
Anyone know how I would go about repairing my disk ?
Thank you in advance.

You need an installer disc or an external drive from which you can boot the computer. Otherwise you cn try:
File System Maint. - fsck
Boot into single-user mode. After startup is completed you will be in command line mode and should see a prompt with a cursor positioned after it. At the prompt enter the following then press RETURN:
/sbin/fsck -fy
If you receive a message that says "***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****" then re-run the command until you receive a message that says "** The volume (name_of_volume) appears to be OK." If you re-run the command more than seven times and do not get the OK message, then the drive cannot be repaired this way. If you were successful then enter:
reboot
and press RETURN to restart the computer.

Repairing disk with another installation disk??

My startup disk is almost full so I tried to repair disk in Disk Utility but only 'verify disk' was available, which led to the following error message: "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." I have recently moved countries and cannot seem to find my installation disk anywhere (stupid, I know). Is there another option, such as using someone else's installation disk (since nothing is actually installed from the installation disk in this process, right?) or does it have to be my own installation disk? It is an old MacBook (2007), running OSX 10.6.3. Thanks in advance!

Okay so I got my hands on another installation disk, inserted the disk and restarted the computer while holding down the 'c' key. But when the computer started up an error message appeared saying "Mac OS X can't be installed on this computer. If you want to restore from a Time Machine backup, click 'Restore from Backup.'" When I started down that path of restoring from my time machine backups it warned me that everything on my startup disk would be wiped, and that seemed like a bad idea, so I backed out of that process and am now not sure how to proceed. I have read that with OS X newer than 10.5 I should be able to do it via wifi, without having to use an installation disk...?

27" iMac freezes, but mouse moves. 10.6.8. For 2 days, same error with volume info. Repaired disk from install disk twice.

Here's more info. Bought the iMac in Nov. 2009. It's been one with lots of problems, including a new mother board. Haven't had any big troubles lately until now. The exact error is:
Invalid volume file count
(It should be 888333 instead of 888334)
Invalid volume directory count
(Should be 221900 instead of 221899)
These were the only error messages. I did use Disk Utility to repair the disk, twice in two days.
2.66 GHz Intel Core i%
12 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
(219.55 GB available)
I'm not sure what else would be helpful to know.
Can someone tell me what's up, please?
Thanks! Jane

It would appear Disk Utility cannot repair the problem. This is not a big problem, but fixing it will require you to purchase and use Disk Warrior. Alternatively, you can backup your files, erase the drive, reinstall Snow Leopard, then restore your files.
Clean Install of Snow Leopard
Be sure to make a backup first because the following procedure will erase
the drive and everything on it.
     1. Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc or the Disc 1 that came
         with your computer. Insert the disc into the optical drive and restart the computer.
         After the chime press and hold down the "C" key. Release the key when you see
         a small spinning gear appear below the dark gray Apple logo.
     2. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue
         button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
         After DU loads select the hard drive entry from the left side list (mfgr.'s ID and drive
         size.) Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. Set the number of
         partitions to one (1) from the Partitions drop down menu, click on Options button
         and select GUID, click on OK, then set the format type to MacOS Extended
         (Journaled, if supported), then click on the Apply button.
     3. When the formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed
         with the OS X installation and follow the directions included with the installer.
     4. When the installation has completed your computer will Restart into the Setup
         Assistant. Be sure you configure your initial admin account with the exact same
         username and password that you used on your old drive. After you finish Setup
         Assistant will complete the installation after which you will be running a fresh
         install of OS X. You can now begin the update process by opening Software
         Update and installing all recommended updates to bring your installation current.
Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1.

HELP required! Cannot boot leopard, cannot repair disk from install disk

While my Macbook was indexing the hard drive (leopard 10.5.4), it froze and I was forced to force shut down the laptop. After doing that, it would not boot up. It stayed at the gray screen with the Apple logo and rolling ball and the laptop eventually shut down after 10 minutes or so.
I have attempted to boot from my Leopard Install DVD and tried disk repair but I could not do so because the buttons were "grayed out" and I could not click them. The only button that can be clicked is "verify disk". I tried doing so and it resulted in many errors.
I also tried booting in single user command mode (CMD+S) and typed in fsck -fy but it could not repair my disk.
As a last resort, I have tried to reinstall a fresh copy of OS X but it says that I need to wipe out my whole hard drive before doing so. I have so data that I have put on my Macbook in the last week and would like to recover it before re-installing OS X. Is there any way to do so?
My most favorable outcome would be to fix the problem and avoid reinstalling OS X (if possible). Any suggestions?

Without a bootable backup/clone or a TimeMachine restorable file, you're out of luck unless you pop for DiskWarrior and try to fix your file directory (no guarantees, but it works for many).

Can't repair disk with Disk Warrior

Earlier I posted this message:
I have used the Tiger installation disc to attempt to repair disk permissions and repair disk. When I run verify disk, it indictes "keys out of order" and gives me a "repair disk" message. When I run the repair disk from the installation DVD, the blue bar moves about 1/2 way. Then everything freezes.
The reply advised me to get Disk Warrior, which I did. I am attempting to rebuild the directory and I get a parenthetic message (Speed inhibited by disk malfunction). The wheel spins for hours and ultimately the arrow reappears and is frozen. Any idea where to go next?

Hi, Lucy -
If the damage to the directory is substantial, it can take DiskWarrior a while to fix it. Suggest you let it sit there and run - it may not appear that anything is happening, but it probably is.

Rationale for Repairing Disk Permissions

I repair permissions before and after installations, and I suggest others to do so. However, I have read in some threads in Discussions there there is no technical basis for repairing disk permissions before installation, and that only repairing after installation is necessary.
I realize that there are different opinions about this, but beyond opinions is there a technical basis or rationale for repairing disk permissions before installations?
Thanks.
cornelius
Message was edited by: cornelius

Hi cornelius,
Here is some reading about this topic. Mind that Apple DOES recommend repairing permissions as routine maintenance (see links at the bottom)! My suggestion to Repair permissions before and after an update has a very simple rational: If you forgot to repair permissions AFTER the last update you might get into trouble. Therefore it is safe and costs only a few seconds to do it before and after the update.
mac.column.ted: Unravelling the Repair Disk Permissions controversy
"Ted Landau
May 2006
Repairing Disk Permissions. Not exactly a topic that you would expect to spark much controversy. Yet, surprisingly, it is the focal point of a rather heated debate.
The command itself is innocuous enough. It is included as part of the First Aid component of Disk Utility. Apple's Help for Disk Utility states: "User permissions associated with files, folders, or applications can become damaged and prevent a file or application from opening. Permissions problems can also cause your computer to run slowly. Using Disk Utility, you may be able to fix these permissions problems...Repairing permissions may also be recommended after updating the system or installing new software."
Consistent with this, many users and Web sites (including MacFixIt and at least some postings on MacinTouch) recommend the use of Repair Disk Permissions, not only for specific signs of trouble, but as a part of generic troubleshooting and ongoing maintenance for your Mac.
In contrast, other members of the Mac community (writing in locations such as the Daring Fireball , Unsanity, and the MDJ) argue that running this command just for maintenance, in the absence of any particular symptom, is essentially worthless. Some critics go even further and claim there is no justification for ever selecting to repair permissions. Not only is it useless, they contend, but it may even cause new problems to appear. This viewpoint is often expressed with inflammatory rhetoric such as "covering yourself in Vaseline and rolling around naked in the dirt and repairing permissions are just as likely to fix your Mac OS X problem" (Unsanity).
Regardless of who's right or wrong, I don't believe that insulting users is merited here, especially when these users are simply following advice suggested by Apple itself. As it turns out, I also do not agree with the position of these critics. So, although I may be stepping into a minefield, here's my own take on this subject and my resulting recommendations. [Disclaimer: I was not involved in the authorship of previous MacFixIt articles on this subject. This column is my separate opinion, and does not necessarily reflect the views of MacFixIt.]: Continued"
Mac OS X 10.3 Help: "It's a good idea to repair disk permissions as a regular maintenance task after upgrading or installing new software."
Mac OS X 10.4 Help: "It's a good idea to repair disk permissions as a regular maintenance task after upgrading or installing new software."
Randy B. Singer: Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance

Error in repair disk

I bought this macbook only 2 month ago.
suddenly it started to run very very slow (start up take ages, opening any application even more.)
I have enhanced my memory to 2 giga so it's not a memory problem.
In the disc utility it said that i have an error in the disc and have to repair it.
in one of the forum i read that i should start up from a Mac OS X install disc to repair the disk.
but after doing exactly as explained i got an error message that the disc repair was failed.
I tried to download onyx and ran repair disc through there but it also advised me to run repair disc from the installation cd. (which i cant do because i get an error message)
the computer still run very very slow and i ran out of options.
does anyone know what should i do
any help will be appreciated

Hello dedor:
Welcome to Apple discussions.
Since you are under warranty, by all means contact Apple ( or take your computer in, as the previous poster suggested.
The error may be either hardware or software, but it should not be your problem to resolve.
Barry

Is there any way to speed up "repair disk" over internet recovery on OSX

After receiving a grey screen on startup, I finally have been able to boot into internet recovery on my 13" macbook pro. I'm running "Repair Disk" from the Disk Utility on my "Macintosh HD" drive. The estimated time is listed at "1 day, 23 hours", and has been stuck there for about 8 hours. It was 2 days and then did move to 1 day, 23 hours, but has not moved since.
Is there any way to speed up this disk repair? Would connecting over ethernet rather than WiFi help? Should I go somewhere with a faster internet connection than my home (1.1Mbps Down / 1.6 Up)? It can't possibly take over 2 days to repair the disk under normal conditions, right?

A hard wire connection should be faster than wifi. If you have been running Disk Utility Repair for 8 hrs, try is again and if after an hour you still see the same result, I suspect that the HDD is faulty.
I would try an external boot HDD and see if the MBP can boot from that. If it can, than that indicates that your internal HDD has failed and must be replaced. Transfer as much data as you can.
Ciao.

Repair Disk Failure

I just upgraded my Beige to 10.4.4. All runs fine, but when I run Repair Disk it fails, I get the following:
"Verify and Repair disk “OSX”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Incorrect number of thread records
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
Repairing volume.
Rechecking volume.
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Incorrect number of thread records
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy."
It will keep running through this over and over again then after 5 or 6 tries it says that it cannot repair disk. How can I get it to repair?
BTW, I'm running Repair Disk from an external drive as I have in the past w/o incident.
Thanks for any help,
Tony

Hi Tony,
Sorry you're having problems with 10.4.4. Here's a link to more info about some of the problems people are experiencing with this new update --
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060111082842671
And just a word of caution. As our Beiges are so picky about what happens within the OS, you might want to hold off incremental updates until they've been out for a couple of weeks or so, and Apple has had a chance to tweak it and/or issue a further update to fix bugs. This update in particular is a big transition, as it makes the adjustment to the Intel chip. There seems to be some feeling that 10.4.5 is not far away.
Good luck. Diskwarrior may help. Just be sure to run the Tiger version (3.0.3) and not the earlier version which works with Panther.
Keep us posted!
Tina

Hard drive drivers for use with system repair disk

I've been through the mill with my Satellite A665 S6085...it started its life with a bad CD/DVD drive in the really dark customer service days and spent more of the first two months of life in the shop waiting for the arrival of a new drive than it did in my hands. Then the CD/DVD failed just at the end of the warranty period (and Toshiba replaced it a second time very quickly, and without charge!)
Since then it has been working reasonably well, but within the last few weeks it has gotten really sluggish (it was taking about 20 minutes to completely power up), and last week refused to start at all (repeated start-up failures). I created a system repair disk from another laptop we have, managed to get it to start up - but accompanied by an even more dramatic slow down.
I was unable to create an image of the system, but I did manage in safe mode to copy all but about 20 unimportant files (whew!.), and was working on doing what I could to get it spiffied up enough to create a system image. Unfortunately, in the middle of running the disk checking routine it hung. It ran for about 20 hours and got to stage 4 (16% done the 23rd file) and stopped all activity. (Prior to that time the drive light had been flashing on and off periodically - but when I had watched it with no activity for over an hour I did a hard power down . . . I know, bad idea, but it really did seem to be at a complete standstill).
It started once in safe mode then froze, and has not started since then.
When I boot from the system repair disk, the operating system doesn't come up - and the instructions are to load the hard drive drivers and try again. So the immediate question is where the heck do I find the drivers since I can't power up to determine the hard drive manufacturer (and the drivers available through the driver download portion of the Toshiba site don't seem to do the trick)?
But I'd also welcome any hints as to how to get far enough along to at least get a system image before I give up and let the professionals handle things...

Hi ! You should have created a system image a long time ago I'm tired of this thread. You seem to know all about this so why even ask for help here on the forum Good luck friend. I hope you solve your problem. I don't think I can help you an further
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Repair Disk Permissions taking 19 hours so far...

I semi-regularly use Onyx to repair disk permissions. (probably once a month). It normally takes around 30 minutes to complete. Yesterday my system started hanging so I ran repair disk from the boot cd. This was fine and took around fifteen minutes. Then I ran repair disk permissions from the boot CD. After around 30 minutes it said '1 minute remaining'. That was 19 hours ago....
It's still chugging along so it sounds like somethings happening - but the progress bar and remaining time have not changed.
So my question is - should I let it finish? How long should I wait? Is there anything else I could check?

Update to the Update!
I ran repair disk permissions from my profile and it finished (around 7 minutes). I've attached the log below in case it points to anything specific?
2010-09-05 10:08:37 -0500: Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
2010-09-05 10:13:39 -0500: Permissions differ on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Resources/JavaPlugin Cocoa.bundle/Contents/Resources/Java/deploy.jar", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
2010-09-05 10:13:40 -0500: Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Resources/JavaPlugin Cocoa.bundle/Contents/Resources/Java/deploy.jar".
2010-09-05 10:13:40 -0500: Permissions differ on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Resources/JavaPlugin Cocoa.bundle/Contents/Resources/Java/libdeploy.jnilib", should be -rwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
2010-09-05 10:13:40 -0500: Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Resources/JavaPlugin Cocoa.bundle/Contents/Resources/Java/libdeploy.jnilib".
2010-09-05 10:16:31 -0500: Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
2010-09-05 10:21:27 -0500:
2010-09-05 10:21:29 -0500: Permissions repair complete
2010-09-05 10:21:29 -0500:
2010-09-05 10:21:29 -0500:

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