Repair disk greyed out?

this may be a no-brainer, but i'm stumped. i recently installed Tiger onto one of my disk partitions (i'll refer to the partition as 'B") so that i could use DiskWarrior to repair the startup disk ("A").
Prior to this, when I was running DW off the CD it was taking very long, appeared to hang on step 6 for 24 hours.
the workaround worked great, repaired the disk in a matter of minutes.
now however, i'm not sure if i've altered my system configuration.
i was a bit freaked when after installing Tiger on the partition it restarted with the partition "B" as the startup. i changed the startup back to the original "A" and thought all was well.
now however, i think i've noticed another change.
in disk utility, the "repair disk" button is greyed out for "A"
"A" shows Verify Disk Permissions, Repair Disk Permissions, and Verify Disk as options but NOT Repair Disk
"B" however allows for all the options
(Side note, I have 2 other partitions as well, now they only offer "Verify" and "Repair Disk", whereas I'm certain they used to allow for all options previously. Also, I've added an external HD during these changes. Maybe that's a factor?)
Many thanks if anyone has any thoughts. This resource is truly indispensible!
Dual 1.25 GHz Power PC G4, 2MB L3 Cache per processor, 1GB DDR SDRAM Mac OS X (10.4.4) also Rev B G3 iMac collecting dust

I know DW takes a looooooong time to run. I've never seen it take 24hrs.
DiskWarrior has an update for Tiger, You might check to see if you are using the newest version for DW.
sometimes the computer sees whatever version your Mac has on its various drives and chooses the newest version to startup.
I have 3 HD's an ext 40GB, a 120GB, and the original 80GB drive the Mac came with. OS9.2.2 on the 120GB, OSX 10.2.7 on the 40GB. and the main drive has OSX 10.3.9. I am sure Tiger works similar, the computer will make a choice to boot up with the newest OS, unless you tell it which OS to boot with. I may very well be wrong... just my observation from trial and error.
I aim to remove my 10.2.7 when I get Tiger in next few months. consolidate my 9.2.2 & 10.3.9 on the 120GB and put Tiger brand new on the 80GB.
So if things never work right, I can always reboot onto the old Panther.
Of course when moving OSX system, always use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper, unless you like installing the OSX brand new everytime. OS9 is not as anal retentive.
Verify/Repair Permissions is Very different from Verify/Repair Disk.
your Disk Repair thing will never repair the startup/boot disk. If you are want here is good way to go...
Boot off your OSX install discs. When it gets to the Install screen it asks what langauage you wish to install. Goto the File Menu and choose to Quit the installer. normally is an Option to use the Disk Utility. Then You should be able to Verify and Repair disk all you want on both Partitions without issue.
Non-OSX disks will not allow Verify/Repair Permissions, but you can Verify/Repair Disk to hearts content on them.

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I am trying to repair my harddrive using disk utilities but its greyed out. if you verify the disk it says.
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Checking Catalog file.
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Checking Catalog hierarchy.
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Checking volume bitmap.
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You cannot do this from the same start-up disk. Reboot from your install disk (holding down the C key). Once it opens, select your language, and then go to Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Select your hard disk as before and click Repair.
Once that is complete reboot again from your usual start-up disk.
More useful reading here:
Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417?viewlocale=en_US
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it asks to install the cd installer and restart which i tried but i get a grey screen and then blank. i had to restart and hold mousepad and eject to get the cd out then it boots up again or else its just grey screen then blank
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AbbyBaby wrote:
Hi Benjamin thanks for your reply
i tried holding the c key but nope no luck
the install disc reads when i'm logged in so its probably not the optical drive and its not scratched i've checked
i recently got this laptop with 10.6 installed
is there a third party software perhaps that can help me??
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417

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I boot up my MacBook Pro from the original Mac OS X Install DVD that came with the machine. Using the Disk Utility the MBP hard drive has been re-formatted. I then select 'restore' from a time machine back up copy from the utilities menu. However, as soon as I get to the screen 'searching for time machine backups' I cannot proceed any further as the 'connect to remote disk' button is greyed out so I cannot select the network drive.
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It sounds like something in your installation of OSX was corrupted, and got backed-up. So when you restore, you're restoring the problem.
Your best bet is probably to do an +Erase and Install+ of Leopard, then use +Setup Assistant+ when your Mac restarts to transfer all your users, data, apps, and settings from the backups. See #19 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
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Deano8000 wrote:
After being away on vacation for a week or so, I got the dreaded "Time Machine need to create a new backup" message.
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OSX does that when it's already determined it can't repair it.
If you have DiskWarrior, it might be able to fix it, but I doubt it. I don't recall any posts saying it did. If you don't, I'd not recommend spending $100 ro find out.

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OK- Try a Single User boot- hold command +s while starting, and try and repair with fsck.
-Startup in Single User mode.
-At the command-line prompt, type */sbin/fsck -fy*. Press Return.
fsck will go through five "phases" and then return information about your disk's use and fragmentation. Once it finishes, it'll display this message if no issue is found:
*The volume (nameofvolume) appears to be OK*
-If fsck found issues and has altered, repaired, or fixed anything, it will display this message:
*FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED*
Important: If this message appears, repeat the fsck command again, until fsck tells you that your volume appears to be OK (first-pass repairs may uncover additional issues, so this is a normal thing to do).
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Message was edited by: Mikey U.

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sry I'm kind of a noob with mac's and I have this problem I ran into when trying to partition my mac with bootcamp assistant. An error message came up when I clicked on partition saying Verification failed. This disk could not be partitioned use disk utility to repair this disk. So then I go to disk utility to repair disk and it is greyed out? is this because I need a cd to perform this task if it is where can I get one of these cd's as I no longer have mine
any help is much appreciated thank you

Yes....you will need to be able to reboot from an install DVD or an external drive that has OSX installed on it.....(Repair) is greyed out because you can not repair a mounted OSX volume......
You can get new install DVD's by calling Apple Customer Care and giving them the serial# of your MacBook..... and a fee for the DVD's...

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Mac Book Pro -
My MacBook Pro (2008 Model) has been unable to start up - upon the start up screen when the grey Apple logo appears, I get a loading bar below it.
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REPAIR DISK button greyed out

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Joel,
You are probably going to find that booting to the install disk and running Disk Utility that way isn't going to help any further that "fsck" did. In fact, there is no difference between the command line "fsck" and Disk Utility's "Repair Disk" routine.
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