Worked a treat, Sam, although I had no idea if anything was going on or not, which is always worrying. No nice beachball in whatever it was (unix?). Took but a moment, but took far longer to make absolutely sure the machine was fully backed up before effecting the repair, though of course I still wait to see if the disc problem message comes back.
Thanks (as always), Ranulph On 28 Dec 2010, at 08:50, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: > Hi Ranulph > > Try rebooting holding command + S, let go when the screen goes black and text > starts appearing. When it's finished loading type : > > /sbin/fsck -fy > > Push return and wait for the scan to finish. if it performs any repairs, push > the up arrow on the keyboard then push return and it'll scan again. Continue > scanning until there are no problems reported then type : > > reboot > > Push return and the machine should reboot. > > Regards > > Sam > > -- > MacAmbulance > Sam Mullen > 07747778022 > [email protected] > > On 28 Dec 2010, at 00:01, Ranulph Glanville <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am getting warning about my hard disc. I comes from Drive Genius. It tells >> me to run repair. I do, but the "repair" options within the repair function >> is not available. >> >> When I run the verify option (having repaired permissions), I get this error >> message: >> >> Invalid volume file count >> >> Repeating the verify option, I get the same message. I don't seem able to >> get beyond this, to get the repair option. >> >> The application is running off the hard disc. Perhaps I need to use a boot >> DVD? >> >> Thanks for any advice, >> >> Ranulph >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
