Thanks Rhonda I have been able to repair the hard disk on my MBPro as you had advised. I checked three times and all is in order. The HD was repaired.
The machine actually boots faster and seems much quicker overall. I really appreciate your fantastic and informed assistance, Sincere thanks Chris Christopher L.K. Burton Director Western Whale Research PO Box 1076 Dunsborough WA 6281 Mobile: 0419 199 120 Email: [email protected] On 09/01/2013, at 3:26 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Chris, > > No good backing up the drive until you repair it. > >> Could I use either the OS 10.4 or the 10.5 disk to use Disk Utility? > > You have OS X 10.4.11 installed on your MacBook Pro, so you need to use the > OS X 10.4 install disc to repair the drive. > "Repair Disk" won't worry your Bootcamp partition. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > On 09/01/2013, at 3:09 PM, Chris Burton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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] > -- 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> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20130110/dea8ab2f/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>
