Hard drive needs repair
When I run Disk Utility, I get this message:
Verifying volume ?Macintosh HD?
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Illegal name
Illegal name
Checking multi-linked files.
g Catalog hierarchy.",0)
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
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Macintosh HD
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
\tVolume needs repair
How should I go about repairing it when the repair button is greyed out?
Verifying volume ?Macintosh HD?
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Illegal name
Illegal name
Checking multi-linked files.
g Catalog hierarchy.",0)
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
ed.",1)
Macintosh HD
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
\tVolume needs repair
How should I go about repairing it when the repair button is greyed out?
Comments
When the DVD has booted to the Installer, ignore that and choose "Disk Utility" from the menu bar.
This is because you cannot repair the startup disk or the disk from which Disk Utility is running. So you have to use the DVD as the startup disk.
Reboot the computer while holding down apple-s. This will boot the computer in single-user mode. After startup, type at the prompt: 'fsck -fy' (without quotes). (fsck stands for FileSystemCHeck). This will do the same repairing as Disk Utility. After the repair is done, type 'reboot' (without quotes) to reboot the computer regularly.