Disk utility

[alito]

I have a problem with disk utility
i select my hard drive, but i cant check or repair the disk
the buttons are alll in grey,
some help?

[ElDiabloConCaca]

What kind of setup are you using? Do you have OS 9 and OS X on two separate partitions? Two separate drives? One drive/one partition? What hard drive are you trying to repair -- the startup drive or some other drive? If you have any other drives, can you select those and have disk utility operate normally?

Providing as much information as you possibly can would help us try to pinpoint where exactly the problem is occurring, since many different things can cause similar effects... thanks!

[alito]

thanxs for your help
im only using one partition
and when i select my hard drive i cant use disk utility.
the verify or repair are in grey and doesnt work

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Hmmm... try booting from the 10.1 or 10.0 Installer CD, then when the installer pops up, choose "Disk Utility" from the menubar under one of the menus... you can run it from there and try to repair your disk. If this still doesn't work, I'm lost!

[ElDiabloConCaca]

I found out specifically why those options are greyed-out under Disk Utility -- apparently, 10.1's disk utility is different from OS 10.0's disk utility. You USED to be able to verify the startup disk with disk utility under 10.0, but it would ALWAYS report errors even if there were none. This was a known issue and Apple even said so -- I guess they changed that in 10.1's disk utility... something to do with the new UNIX underpinnings or something prevents the disk utility from accurately reporting errors on the startup disk?

At any rate, disk utility will not check or repair the startup disk, nor will it do so for any disk that has open files on it, and, obviously, it won't do it for read-only disks such as CD-ROMs and write-protected disks. Disk utility reports this when you try and select one of those volumes.

Best bet: boot from the OS 10 installer disk and follow my directions as per my last post. That's the only thing I can think of, short of booting back into OS 9 and running the Disk First Aid program from there...

[alito]

thanxs a lor for your attention
i will try that

[Dradts]

startup ur mac while holding down command+s.
this will boot into the single user mode (this won't load the aqua interface, so there is no gui in the single user mode!).
on the then appearing shell type "fsck -y" to check ur harddrive for errors and to repair them automatically.

run the fsck command like 3 or 4 times, cause it never fixes all harddrive errors at once.

after the hd is fixed, type reboot

[twister]

whats the difference between "fsck -y" and just typing "fsck"?

twister