Volume bitmap needs minor repair for orphaned blocks

Every once in a while I'll verify permissions using disk utility. A few weeks ago I ran the verify disk and it came up with an issue like the one below. I repaired it and now it has happened again. This is the 3rd time actually. Is my SSD having issues and need replacement or is this common?
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking file systemPerforming live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Incorrect block count for file InstallESD.dmg
(It should be 5712 instead of 1067949)
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Checking extended attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Volume bitmap needs minor repair for orphaned blocks
Checking volume information.
Invalid volume free block count
(It should be 41504458 instead of 40442221)
The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the Apple logo. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility.
Thanks.

The repair is inevitable and the sooner done the less data corruption will occur. Since the previous repair, has any app crashed or have you had to force-quit one? Under normal circumstances, this is the usual cause: the app craps out and doesn't get a chance to free up disk space used on temp files and such before croaking.

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Volume Header needs minor repair

The last two days, when I start my laptop, it hangs with the message to reststart, so I do. THen I get a message to look at the logs and I can't. My system was also running slow so I thought it might be a good idea to run utilities. I did. Utility program stopped with this message and I can't pick repair disk:
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
Volume Header needs minor repair
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
Disk Utility stopped verifying “Macintosh HD” because the following error was encountered:
The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair
Help! Any ideas?
Thanks
Amy

Hi Amy;
The only way you can repair the system disk is if you booted from another disk or CD. The easiest way to do this is to boot from the install media that came with your Mac and run Disk Utility from there.
Allan

Volume needs minor repair

I've been having problems with opening applications and some websites such as itunes, quiktime, mirosoft word, iphoto, bascially most programs won't open. These programs out of the blue wouldn't open, I can't think of anything I did before these problems started. For instance I click the icon it bounces once a black arrow appers under it and then nothing happens. The When i try opening them from the application folder some might flash, but then nothing happens. I tried removing the plist files, but that didn't help. Then I ran disk permissions and nothing came up. Then I ran disk utilities from the Mac OS X install disk and did repair disk and this is what came up.
Verify and Repair disk
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Overlapped extent allocation (file 2948066d)
Overlapped extent allocation (file3235270d)
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking Volume bitmap.
Volume Bitmap needs minor repair
Checking volume information.
Invalid volume free block count
(It should be 615327 instead of 615325)
Repairing volume.
The volume could not be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error
Repair attempted on volume 1
1 volume could not be prepared
What now? What is volume and how can I fix it, any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Unfortunately this error (failure on exit) means that the problem is more than minor. Here is what you can do:
1) Before doing anything I would strongly suggest backing up the data on your hard drive. Use instructions in this article
2) You may be able to use 3rd party disk utilities such as Disk Warrior (made by Alsoft) to repair this disk's directory. I say may, as there is a chance that it will not be successful.
3) If the utilities you try are unsuccessful, or you elect not to use them, you will need to erase and restore your hard drive, thus creating a new directory for the disk. After this, update your OS and applications, then put your data back on the hard drive using the steps in the article in step 1.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
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I have a 22'' LCD Sony SyncMaster monitor that I bought last year for my birthday. (September 9th) It came with a 1 year warranty from Sony. But around December, the monitor began to flicker. If I left the monitor on for about 10-30 minutes (while it was flickering) it would go back to normal status and act as if nothing happened. Around Janruary, however. It would flicker and never stop. And then eventually, it just stopped flicking/working/anything at all. I was thinking about taking it into Best Buy and sending it in to be repaired, but I'm scared of how much it will actually cost me. I did not purchase a warranty, but there is still the manufacturer warranty. I want to repair my monitor in the cheapest way possible. Got any advice?

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If not, you will need to call Sony directly and talk to their tech support guys and discuss the options with them.
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Need to repair HD before installing mavericks HELP !!

Dear all,
I have a perfectly working MacBook Air, built 2012 with 256 GB.
Mountain Lion does a great job, but I want to progress to Mavericks.
As advised, I ran disk Utility system check and this came up at veryfying disk:
Volume bitmap needs minor repair for orphaned blocks
Invalid Volume free block count
The Volme MA_HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired
As advised I restart holding the command-R combo after which my computer starts to connect to the Internet searching for the boot-tool. then after about 30 seconds, I get a warining sign with apple.com/support - 1007F.
When I am on another network, the Internet logo keeps spinning for 20 minutes and then I get a -2007F failure.
I can not repair my disk it seems, although all is working fien.
Quickly made a Time Machine backup, but what can i do next ?
thanks for your help !!

Same thing: Internet logo spinning for 10 seconds, then apple.com/support -100F.
In the meantime the computer works perfect under Mountain Lion.

Volume Bitmap Errors - What Keeps Causing Them?

I've been a recurring issue with my 2010 MacBook Pro (specs below) in recent months. It seems like every other week, lately, I've needed to repair my internal HD because I keep seeing the following error:
"Volume bitmap needs minor repair for orphaned blocks"
"Invalid volume free block count"
The problem always repairs, successfully.
My computer isn't having any issues (none perceptible to me, anyway). Yet, my blocks seem to keep getting orphaned. Why would this keep happening? How can I prevent it?
Thanks.

Launch Disk Utility and click the icon of the physical drive itself (not the indented volume name). Check S.M.A.R.T. status. Any messages?
When you launch Disk Utility to repair drive is it from Recovery HD or from some other startup drive?
In any case, when you Repair Disk, if you haven't done so before, repeat Repair Disk until no errors are reported. Sometimes one error can mask another.
If you have done the above, it may help to try a more powerful disk utility such as Disk Warrior, but you will need to boot from the utility's disk or from a different startup drive.

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
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Disk Utility reports minor repair required - how risky is this?

I was verifying permissions the other day and thought I'd check the hard drive as well. When running the verify hard drive it stopped with an error report as follows:
Volume Header needs minor repair
The Volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired
Error the underliying task reported failure on exit. 1HFS volume checked. Volume needs repair.
The Macbook seem to be running fine. Should I run the repair or leave it. Someone once told me that if the Disk Utility fails to repair the problem it can leave the disk unusable. Any truth in that?
Thanks
Michael
iMac G4 15" flat screen : MacBook 1.83 (Tiger) Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Directory structure issues can lead to freezing, general slowness, startup issues (computer may not startup all the way), Applications or files may not open.
It is usually suggested to repair the disk with Disk Utility that came with the computer or a disk utility that is compatible with the operating system that you are using.
Here are some articles from Apple's knowledge base. Some are technical:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302411
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=13628
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=7565
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=19516
Directory structure issues usually are not HW issues, but is the way the computer or OS, stores/sorts information on the Hard drive.

Need to repair disk - what do I do????!!!

I've done a check on the disk utility and it says the following:
"Volume Header needs minor repair
The volume Apple Hardrive needs to be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair"
However it doesn't give me the choice to click 'repair disk'. Do I need to reinstall? If so what is the safest way of doing this?
If I don't need to reinstall, what should I do?
Any help much appreciated!

Do this:
Repairing permissions is an important part of regular maintenance, and should always be carried out both before and after any software installation or update.
Go to Disk Utility (this is in your Utilities Folder in your Application folder) and click on the icon of your hard disk (not the one with all the numbers).
In First Aid, click on Repair Permissions.
This only takes a minute or two.
Background information here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751
and here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302672
If you were having any serious problems with your Mac you might as well complete the exercise by repairing your hard disk as well. 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

HD minor repair?

Hi, I didn't know where to put this so I decided to put it here since I've got an ibook G4 late 2005 model.
Today I opened disk utility to verify my disk since I'm planning on upgrading my OS to Leopard this Friday and found that there's a minor error in the HD.
"Volume Header needs minor repair
The volume mY hD needs to be repaired."
I was wondering if it's serious and if I should do something about it?
I'm currently at my university which doesn't have any apple genius bar near and I don't have my car with me so any suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks!

Hi Glynn,
Apple recommends using Disk Utility whenever possible.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=10621
But it's much easier to use fsck by starting in Safe Mode. You won't see any error messages by doing it this way but it is much easier.
John

Stuck: Need Disk repair but DVD drive dead and only have USB 1

[1 Ghz flat-panel iMac with USB 1 ports (no USB 2) and also Firewire 400]
I noticed a strange discrepancy (small but concerning) between the size of a folder on hard drive (folder of all mp3's with no subfolders) and the backup of the same folder on a mounted thumb drive.
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Disk Utility reports three things:
1. Incorrect number of thread records
2. Volume Bit Map needs minor repair
3. Checking volume information.
Volume free block count",0) [I might have mangled this line]
(It should be 13438611 instead of 13437937)
Here is the GOOD (but these are useless as explained under the "Bad"):
- I have a Tiger 10.4 boot DVD for a repair ==>but see below
- I also have a Disk Warrior disk (never used)
Here is the BAD:
- My built-in optical drive [Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-105] is -- I now discover - defunct and DEAD - it does not run the Tiger Boot DVD (in pristine shape).
- I bought an external SuperDrive (unopened) but I believe no boot from USB 1 is possible in PowerPC so a SuperDrive with USB 1 is useless.
Questions:
1.) Is there any way to boot from some external source (optical drive is DEAD) to run Disk Utility and/or Disk Warrior? -- I see none in this case! (gulp).
2.) More importantly (and this is my fundamental concern): Do the three Disk Utility hard drive issues constitute any direct threat to the integrity of my files?
I have almost everything backed up to duplicate thumb drives over these many months as standard practice.
Are these Disk Utility errors fully isolated to hard drive directory-keeping...or do these directory damage errors pose the possibility of mangling or harming my files or their metadata (filesize, etc.).
Put another way, when files are backed-up from a hard drive under the Disk Utility reports above, do they remain unharmed and undamaged by the situations reported by Disk Utility?
Thanks,
Bill

Jeff and Michael,
Thank you both for your generous and thoughtful input.
Michael: As I slept on it overnight, the exact same idea occurred to me of trying a Target Mode to the iMac from my Lion MacbookPro (I have it but stupidly have yet to use it much!).
I did buy a Firewire 800 (MBP) to Firewire 400 (iMac) adapter cable a few months ago!
CONCERN: Would there be potential compatibility issues or risks in running Lion 10.7's Disk Utility against the hard drive of the old OSX 10.4 iMac in Target Disk Mode?
==> Assuming an "it's ok" answer to the Target Disk question, would the majority of users agree that the Target Disk Mode would be more prudent than running:
fsck -fy in Single User Mode
I have never done fsck -fy before especially because I was under the impression there were issues with Journaled drived but from what I have read today...it looks ok to do)
Jeff: Can't thank you enough for the reference to the OTW DVD drive. I might first invest $10 in one of those DVD lens cleaner disks that I've read about. It's probably not the issue or else why would the drive read commercial Music cds perfectly well!
Thanks,
Bilil

Disk Utility says I need to repair disk

My computer is running a little sluggish so I went into the Disk Utility and selected verify disk. I got the message below. I inserted the OS X disk but the repair disk option wasn't available. I bought the computer with Panther and got Tiger later, unfortunately I don't have the Tiger disk. How do I fix this problem?
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Volume Bit Map needs minor repair
Checking volume information.
Macintosh HD
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair

If you are running Tiger, you need the Tiger install disc you purchased in order to run Disk First Aid repair.
And withhout your Tiger install disc, you cannot perform an Archive & Install retaining Tiger, etc. so bad move not keeping this in a safe place.
Your only other option is running fsck.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214

I have a G5 and bought and upgraded to osx 10.5. now i need to upgrade to 10.5.6 or higher, but when i download and try to install, i get message "this volume does not meet requirements for this update".

i am trying to sync an ipad to a power mac g5. i bought and upgraded to osx 10.5 and have tried to download and 10.5.6 or higher, but i keep getting same message: "you cannot install mac os x update on this volume. this volume does not meet requirements for this update". help!

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To me, in all such updates, goes without saying maybe: backup, repair permissions, repair your drive (Disk Warrior does more reliable and thorough job, and it comes out to pennies if you don't wait until needed). Clone your system so you can restore or use the backup - just in case.
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iTunes Store account
Internet access
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