Re: Verifying disk before Mountain Lion upgrade or clean install

2012-08-12 Thread Simon Cavendish
Because certain repairs or verifications can't be done when you are actually within the start up disk. I don't understand the full programming details. On 12 Aug 2012, at 02:06, Christina C. wrote: Thanks for sharing this info. Why does it have to be done in the recovery partition instead of

Re: Verifying disk before Mountain Lion upgrade or clean install

2012-08-11 Thread Christina C.
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

Verifying disk before Mountain Lion upgrade or clean install

2012-07-29 Thread Andrew Lamanche
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