do you loose any data that way in case I ever have to do that? S On Jan 6, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:
> Hello Mary, > > To repair your startup disk: > > • Shut down your computer; > • Insert install disk; > • Hold down the letter C and press the Power button; > • Keep the C key held down until you hear the DVD working; > • When the Language Chooser screen appears, click Continue; > • The next screen will offer you the menus, go right to Utilities and down to > Disk Utility; > • In Disk Utility, select your internal hard drive and click on Repair Disk. > > When it's done, just shut down your machine again and start up again as > normal. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 6 Jan 2011, at 18:44, Mary Otten wrote: > >> I just installed the os update and ran Onyx. The first thing Onyx does is to >> check the s m a r t status of the start up disk, and it informed me that my >> disk needs repair and said to start up using my original software >> installation disk, go to utilities, disk utility and repair. Is this at all >> accessible with vo and if so, how? And Is this process going to render my >> time machine back ups problematic, since presumably, at some point, TM must >> have backed up the problems that Onyx has just discovered? >> >> Mary >> Mary Otten >> [email protected] >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
