Hi Ronni You are a legend!
Thankyou once again for your advice, as my brain was not working too well yesterday on account of not much sleep. Could I use either the OS 10.4 or the 10.5 disk to use Disk Utility? As an after thought, this particular mac does have 2 partitions on the disk; 1 for Mac (100gb) and the other, a Bootcamp partition with XP on it (20gb) so I could do my GIS and other PC work on it. Would this influence how Disk Utility would repair it? Im thinking I should back it up then erase the disk and install 10.5 on the machine? I will also need to still run my PC software but thought I would instal my Parallels 6 on the machine instead of the Bootcamp? What do you think? Kindest regards and many thanks Chris On 08/01/2013, at 6:18 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Chris, > > You cannot Repair a Drive you are booted from. > > You need to Reboot from the OSX installer DVD (hold down "C" key as you start > up, and continue holding it until it boots from the DVD). Choose your > languarge, and then under the Installer or the Utilities menu, launch Disk > Utility. > > Then select "Repair Disk" > You might need to run "Repair Disk" more than once, until you see "Disk > Appears Ok" > > Cheers, > Ronni > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > On 08/01/2013, at 4:17 PM, Chris Burton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Good afternoon Muggers >> >> I have spent most of the arvo cleaning out the hard disk on one of my older >> 15" MBPro (2.16 Core 2 Duo, 2gb Ram 10.4.11) and then ran Disk Utility on >> it. >> >> I have received a 'First Aid failed' box with the error 'Volume Header needs >> minor repair' appearing. I did the check three times with the same result >> >> Unfortunately for some reason the 'Repair Disk' button is ghosted out, so I >> cant actually repair it using Disk Utility!? >> >> Can someone please provide me with some advice on what to do next? >> >> Is it worth downloading the App 'AppleJack' that others have recently >> mentioned is very good, or use some other software to do the repair? >> >> Maybe I could also check the CMS as Ronni has previous explained a while ago? >> >> I have also thought it might be worth upgrading the OS on this machine but >> am not sure to what level this will be possible? >> >> Many thanks to any assistance >> >> Kind regards >> >> Chris >> >> >> Christopher L.K. Burton >> Director >> Western Whale Research >> PO Box 1076 >> Dunsborough WA 6281 >> Mobile: 0419 199 120 >> Email: [email protected] >> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20130108/45d4a82e/attachment.htm >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
