Snow leopard Disk Utility

Hi. I have recently installed Mac OS 10.6 on my Intel iMac (8,1). I am very pleased with it, but for some reason Disk Utility crashes each time I open it. I get an error message saying Disk Utility quit unexpectedly. I relaunch it, but then the same thing happens. At first I thought there was some error, so I restarted. That didn't help. Now disk utility is basically "useless." Is there any Terminal hack or something?

Try using Disk Utility to do a Disk Repair, as shown in this link, while booted up on your install disk. Maybe it will fix it.
You could have some directory corruption. Let us know what errors Disk Utility reports and if DU was able to repair them.
Then Repair Permissions.
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Snow Leopard Disk Utility not showing Disk

Heya, before anyone jumps to conclusion that the disk is just dead, please read the following info.
Background: Basically I'm upgrading to Snow Leopard and I had a striped RAID that I wanted to break and format. They held my Leopard install and I know there's issues w/ SL install seeing RAID (even doing disk boot didn't work for me) so I went the route of booting from SL disk and I broke the soft RAID.
_The problem:_ After I broke the RAID only one of the two HDs was showing up, the one in Bay 1. So I formatted it to see if for some reason it would do something about it. No dice. I even tried taking out the other disk and putting it in bay 1, but to no avail.
*So here's the weird part*: I booted with the Leopard disk and it saw both drives with no problem. The other one that wasn't showing up still was thinking it was part of it's own RAID but after I Erased it, it looked exactly the same stat wise as my other Seagate. So key point: _nothing wrong with the HD_.
_Other info:_ I went into the System Profiler on each booted OS disk and the Leopard one was showing both drives in the Serial-ATA section just fine, wheres Snow's Profiler said there was some error finding the info. Believe me I tried this several times, back and forth.
So has anyone had and/or fixed a problem like this where Snow Leopard's disk utility is only finding one (a specific one) hard drive that was perhaps previously raided?

Update : So I talked to Apple Support and they suggested installing Leopard on the one drive that is found and seeing if it recognizes the drive afterward. It did in fact find the drive just as I had named it. *The Bad*: obviously I can't create a soft RAID using the boot drive while actually booted up and of course the SL install disk still won't find the drive.
But there's a new development: I did the sleep wake test to make sure I didn't go through all this trouble for nothing (I was having a wake from sleep problem in Leopard) and after successfully waking it gave me a nice error saying how a drive was ejected improperly *and the drive no longer would show up in the finder* and the system profiler threw up another error.
I did the same sleep wake test booted in Windows 7 on my 3rd bay drive and both drives would show up and be usable (or at least readable) so I'm still pretty sure it's not the drive.
It must be something about OS X not wanting to power-up or read my other drive correctly, especially after sleeping?

Can I repair a Snow Leopard disk from a Tiger machine?

I had the hard drive go down on a MacPro with an Intel processor running OS 10.6.4. When I try to boot, it gets to the Apple screen and shuts down. Running the disk utility from the installation disk gives me the error:
Checking HFS Plus Volume
Invalid Extent Entry
Volume Check Failed
I pulled the drive and connected it with a USB adapter to a spare Mac G5 with a PowerPC processor running Tiger 10.4.11. I can read the disk on the G5 with Tiger. Disk utility on the G5 gives me the same error when trying to repair the disk.
Are there any utilities out there I can run on Tiger to repair the Snow Leopard disk? Free if possible?
Or a good OSX utility that will let me image the drive to another hard drive? This is a production machine in a printing environment and I need to get it back up and running as soon as possible.
Thx...
Carvelli

I could not repair the disk from the command line either. It gave me the same error messages. I did not try Carbon Copy Cloner...yet. I had an extra 250GB drive which I re-installed 10.6.4.
I can bring up the old drive on the USB adapter, so I am going to try the Mac Migration Assistant. Which I've never done before. Does anyone know if it bring over all the applications during the migration? Or will I have to re-install all the applications over again?
Carvelli

Clean MacBook HD with Snow Leopard Disk?

I recently purchased a new MacBook Pro and want to give my 2+ year old MacBook (first gen aluminum, shipped with Leopard and upgraded to Snow Leopard) to a friend.
Can I clean the MacBook hard drive with a retail Snow Leopard disk or must I use the original Leopard disk that came shipped with the MacBook?
I'm asking because I cannot seem to find the original disks but I do have the Snow Leopard package.
I want to get rid of all photos, email, documents, etc. Basically my user account. Will it be possible to do this from the Snow Leopard disk?
T H A N K S

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Boot from the OS X Installer Disc One that came with the computer. 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 startup volume from the left side list then click on the Erase tab. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) then click on the Options button. Select the one pass Zero Data option and click on the OK button. Then click on the Erase button.
Note: You can skip the Zero Data option if you are not concerned about removing sensitive personal data from the hard drive. If you choose to skip this part of the process then it is possible for others to recover data from the hard drive. The Zero Data procedure will prevent others from getting access to your personal information.
This process will take 30 minutes to several hours depending upon the size of the hard drive. After formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Now complete the OS X installation. At the completion of the installation do not restart the computer. Instead just shut it off. The next user will be presented with the Setup Assistant when they turn on the computer just as it would if new out of the box.
You can do this using the Snow Leopard DVD. Be sure to include the DVD with the computer. However, without the original discs that came with the computer the next user will not have access to the Apple Hardware Test dianostics or the ability to restore iLife.

A magnet fell on my macbook "late 2007 series black" and it stopped working. When i start my macbook up it sits on the white screen. i tried inserting the snow leopard disk to do a clean install but the disk ejects and all i see is the pointer.help please

A magnet fell on my macbook "late 2007 series black" and it stopped working. When i start my macbook up it sits on the white screen. i tried inserting the snow leopard disk to do a clean install but the disk ejects and all i see is the pointer. i even bought a new hard drive to do the clean install but the same thing happens. Please Help

Your problem is not Boot Camp, in fact, is your optical drive. Win XP requires indeed sp2, but also the internal drive, does not work from external optical drive.
For other possible tricks, please use the appropriate Boot Camp forum, not here. Mac OS X may be installed from both external and internal optical drive and/or internal/external partition of a disk, any disk. Windows is not so generous.

Why does my MacBook Pro not boot up with the Snow Leopard Disk?

I have erased the entire hard drive on a 2011 macbook pro that had snow leopard on it. I was corrupted. I not insert my Snow Leopard Disk and the machine will not boot. I chose target mode to erase the hard drive from my mac book pro with Mt. Lion on it.
Thank uou for any help,
Ken

Target mode? Is there a second computer involved? Why not insert the Snow Leopard disc in the computer on which you wish to install and hold down the C key to boot from it?
If the disc came with a different computer it will not boot another model. Retail discs also may not boot all model computers, even those that came with the same major version. For example, some MBPs came with 10.6.6 but a retail disc may only be 10.6.3.

I used my snow leopard disk to erase my hard drive. Now I want to eject the snow leopard disk to clean install from the lion boot disk I made. How do I eject the snow leopard disk?

I used my snow leopard disk to erase my hard drive. Now I want to eject the snow leopard disk to clean install from the lion boot disk I made. How do I eject the snow leopard disk? It is the start up disk and I can't figure out how to get it out of the computer so I can put my lion boot disk in. Thanks

turn the mac all the way off. turn the mac on by pressing the power button. as soon as the apple logo appears, pres and hold your mouse button(trackpad mouse clicker etc...) until the CD comes out.

Leopard Disk Utility and Input/Output error messages.

This post is describing a problem I had and how I managed to fix it. When I was researching the Input/Output error message I was getting a couple of people had mentioned this fix on the apple discussion boards, so I thought I would add my fix to support them. (Isn't google fab!) I've no idea if this is the right place for this so please bear with me.
Okay a bit of background:- over christmas we treated ourselves to leopard and as my laptop is now three years old I decided to do a complete reformat and installation. I used my 60GB iPod as an external harddrive and backed everything up. Installed Leopard no probs and was a very happy bunny.
The problem:- I then wanted to remove everything off my iPod. So I thought "I know I'll use Disk Utility".... I tried it with the 'default' setting and got an Input/Output error message straight away (irrespective of whether I did it as an extended journal or not.) When I tried it with the Zero Out option (can't remember exactly what it's called) it came up with the Input/Output error message right at the very end. Argh! iTunes and Finder no longer recognised it, but Disk Utility did.
My research:- After using google I saw some guys on here talking about formatting proper external harddrives using leopards disk utility and they were getting the same messages as me. It turns out it is a fault with Leopards Disk Utility. So I did what the guys recommended.
The solution:- (Thank god I had tiger!) I put in my tiger installation disk, clicked 'install tiger' and restarted the laptop. I clicked my my language, but then rather than going through the actual installation process I went to the top menu bars and chose Disk Utility (using tiger's disk one rather than my laptop's leopard one.) And erased the iPod there. Now when I quit the installation and opened my laptop up properly it worked, both iTunes and finder could see it!!! (I just had to restore my ipod in itunes - and now I'm happily transferring all my music back!)
I hope this helps someone in the same position as me!

I took it to work to use my Windows PC to try and format the drive, but got the same problem. I figured either the drive (it's a 2.5" that used to be inside my AlBook) or the external housing it lives is was faulty. Only way I could test without spending more money is by putting the 2.5" drive inside my powerbook, and booting the (Ti) powerbook from a bootable firewire ipod. I successfully booted from the ipod, and had the same problem with the now internal drive: only visible in disk utility, any attempt to erase fails. Also, I plugged the small 10 GB drive that WAS in the TiBook (but which I removed to put the other, problematic drive in) into the external housing, and it connected to other machines just fine.
Turns out the problem is the hard drive itself.
So now my question becomes: If disk utility can see the hard disk when it is connected (I have it back in the external enclosure now), but gives "input/output error" messages when I try to erase/format it, is there any way I can salvage this drive? It's an 80 GB drive, and I was looking forward to making it my internal TiBook drive (replacing the old 10 GB drive that's in there now).

On start up my Mac Book Pro shows a white screen with a spinning wheel. I have tried starting up with the Snow Leopard disk - all I get is a blue screen. I guess that this is a major repair job??????

On start up my Mac Book Pro shows a white screen with a spinning wheel. I have tried starting up with the Snow Leopard disk - all I get is a blue screen. I guess that this is a major repair job??????

If you have the exact same problem - take the computer to an Apple store or an AASP. Whichever is more convenient for you. If you have AppleCare call them!

When upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard disk just gets spit out.

I'm trying to upgrade my 2006 MacBook Pro (Intel Core Duo with 2GB ram) from Tiger (10.4.11) to Snow Leopard. Every time I try to boot to the disk the computer just spits the disk back out. The optical drive has been replaced recently and I know it works properly. I also checked the snow leopard disk in a newer MacBook Pro and it brought up the install screen right away. Is there something wrong with my version of Tiger that it is not recognizing the Snow Leopard disk?

Hi, is this a grsy machine specific Disc, or the Retail version?
What is the 2z691-****-A number on it?

No response when installing snow leopard disk

I bought a "wiped" machine. I install the snow leopard disk I bought and hold down "c" key and all I get is the white screen with the grey apple logo. disk stops spinning and that is it. Help!!! it is a birthday gift and I am running out of time.

so I bought the snow leopard Mac OS X disk (per a chat with the online apple sales folks)
Then it's almost a certainty you have a retail disk, which is good.
I think the computer was just wiped improperly
No matter how badly, or incorrectly a hard drive was erased, there's nothing to stop the Mac from booting to a DVD, other than the following...
(or the age of the computer and install disk are incompatible).
That would be the most likely reason at this point. Without knowing exactly what Mac model you purchased, this is a guess, but Snow Leopard will not boot to any Mac with a PowerPC CPU. It requires Intel.
Somewhere on your Mac, there will be a visible serial number. Do not post it on these forums. Go to this site and enter it in the open text field. It will tell you exactly what model Mac you have, and its hardware configuration. Please note here what model Mac you have and CPU type.

My macbook won't read the snow leopard disk but my macbook pro does...why?

For better or worse I ran a clean install of the original MacBook OS for an early 2008. It had been running Lion over the years it had never been wiped and reinstalled. In any case, I successfully reinstalled 10.5.2 with the start up disks that came with the machine when we purchased it. (That showed me the drive was operational.) I then attempted to install Snow Leopard with the install disk we've kept and the drive rejected it; however the MacBook Pro's drive did not reject it. (That showed me the disk is operational as well.)
Is the problem as simple as having to update Leopard to the max before the drive will accept the Snow Leopard disk?

Zap the PRAM and Reset the SMC; then, try again. BTW, does the optical drive show up in Apple menu item->About this Mac->More info?

Can I reformat and partition a new internal hard drive with the Snow Leopard disk?

I'm planning on installing a new internal hard drive in my 15'' Macbook Pro. Can I format and partition the new drive with the Snow Leopard disk or is it just an upgrade from Leopard? Thanks much.

You should be able to do that.
If you want to change the sizes of existing partitions this may help:
Enlarging a partition

Snow Leopard disk

When I brought my MacBook, it came with a Snow Leopard disk,
I upgraded to Os x Lion not long ago.
My friend wants Osx Lion, but first needs to upgrade to Snow Leopard before she can get Os x Lion.
Can she use my Snow Leopard disk?
Or can my disk be only registed to one Mac?

She can't with your disk as it's specific to your Mac. She would need a retail copy (Black with X on it) to install SL.

Snow Leopard Disk Requirement for BootCamp

Hi,
I'm installing Windows 7 (64-bit) on my Mac, and I was reading over the "Windows 7 FAQ's" on Apple's support site. I was a bit confused when I saw this: +"Windows 7 requires Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard and the Boot Camp 3.1 Update. For complete system requirements information, see this article."+ I got my iMac in September of 2008, and I only received an OSX Leopard 10.5.2 install disk. However, I upgraded my iMac to Snow Leopard, when it came out the next year and I am running 10.6.4 right now. I have the Snow Leopard disk, that I bought from the Apple store for $29. So, is this the disk they talked about on their website, or should I use the 10.5 disk that came with my Mac?
Thank You So Much!!!
iMac Specs:
20" Screen
3 GB RAM
250GB Hardrive
Intel Core 2 Duo
Mac OSX 10.6.4

Hi,
the Snow Leopard DVD you have bought also contains the BootCamp 3.0 drivers needed for installing WIndows 7
After you have installed these drivers you can then download and install the 3.1 driver update for Windows 7 form here http://support.apple.com/downloads/#bootcamp
Make sure to get the correct 64-bit package.
And since it is a .exe file you have to install it while in Windows.
Regards
Stefan

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