Thanks for sharing this info. Why does it have to be done in the recovery partition instead of through Lion in disk utilities?
Thanks Sent from Christina's iMac :) On Jul 29, 2012, at 10:23 PM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > Dear Listers, > > Since the news of Mountain Lion - I still run Lion - I've been reading a lot > about how to make sure I install it as well as possible. Jo Kissell in his > "Take Control of upgrading to Mountain Lion" strongly recommends verifying > one's disk for possible errors because if an error is present, this might > cause problems during and after the installation. At first I was a bit > reluctant to do this because my macbook air is relatively new (end of 2010), > and has a solid drive, and I thought, oh no, it is surely fine. But today I > actually did perform the verification, and an error was found on my drive and > repaired. I therefore thought I'd share the steps I took to accomplish this > in view of the fact that questions have been asked on the list with regard to > the installation and people have been reporting weird behaviour of Mountain > Lion. > > 1. Start your mac from the recovery partition of your Lion OS. This is > accomplished by pressing and holding for a few seconds command+r key > combination immediately after the startup chime is heard. It took a few > minutes for my macbook air to boot up so do not worry. Remember, Voiceover > will not start automatically when booting from recovery partition or any > other media. > > 2. Start Voiceover with command+f5 (add fn key if the former doesn't work). > Now this is a bit tricky because if you are on your own without any sight, > you don't quite know when the booting process has finished. I kept trying to > start Voiceover a few times unsuccessfully because the booting process was > still going on. Actually, my macbook air while booting was quite hot so the > fan was going, and when the booting was accomplished, the fan stopped too and > I was able to activate Voiceover immediately. > > 3. You will now find yourself on a list applications which are arranged in a > table. Interact with the table, and you will see 4 applications here (if I > remember correctly). Restore from time machine, reinstall OS, erase or repair > disk, and disk utility. Press the button which says disk utility. > > 4. The disk utility will look exactly like the disk utility application > window you are familiar with. Arrow right past the toolbar and interact with > the table of available disks. Place Voiceover on your mackintosh hd and stop > interacting with the table. Move right to the list of available tabs. Choose > "first aid' which is usually already highlighted. Move further to the right > and choose repair disk permissions (which you might just as well do to start > with to be sure). Permissions will be repaired (you can watch results in the > table of results which Voiceover announces clearly as you move around the > window. After permissions repair, choose "verify disk", and again you can see > the results in the table. At the very bottom of the table once the process is > complete, you will be told whether any problems have been found and if the > repair was successful. > > 5. Quit disk utility and restart your computer as normal. > > Hope this will help. > > Andrew > > -- > 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.
