disk utility

Recently, I have not been able to have Word or the WoW patcher run correctly, so I decided it was time to run a permissions repair. However, now disk utility will not run. It either bounces continually in the dock, or pops up for a moment than has an error and quits. Any ideas on what I can...

Shouldn't disk utility be on the install disk so you can partition or fix a HD directly from a boot disk?

Hi all, I run disk utility in order to check file permission and my ibook freezes. I did it becouse I have a process (kextcache) that never stops, sucks 80% of CPU and fills the rest of my disk (2,5 GB available). I need to kill it every time I reboot the system. Could you help me? Thanks...

I just bought a PC box because VirtualPC wouldn't do for me anymore (Autocad runs so freaking slow even the mouse pointer is sluggish). Since I had a Windows disk image and an original activation code from VPC, I decided to use these. I formatted an old Apple HD I had lying around on Disk...

hi im trying to restore my partition and all i can do is select source and not destination.. its all greyed out...and its still greyed out when my source is choosen...i rember restoring before and it wasnt greyed out thanks

I'm going through a training course on Tiger and I encountered a "problem" when using Disk Utility. The "Erase Free Space" feature in Disk Utility offers 3 options: "Zero Out Deleted Files" "7-Pass Erase of Deleted Files" "35-Pass Erase of Deleted Files" I...

I'm having an ongoing problem with Disk Utility crashing under 10.4.1. After an initial restart, Disk Utility functions correctly. When, after some hours, I attempt to access Disk Utility, I get the splash screen and then the spinning beachball. Force quit does not work (DU disappears from...

I don't know what happened, but now I can't get Disk Utility to start up anymore. It gives me a message that says "Error starting Disk Utility Background Process" with text under it that says "Disk Utility started, but a background process needed in Disk Utility didn't start properly. Please...

Hi. A few days ago, my PowerBook G4 12inch has crashed. i can boot from CDROM and open Disk Utility. It recognizes the hard disk (37.3 GB TOSHIBA MK4025GAS). But when i click on Macintosh HD, it says 'Not mounted'. i click the 'Mount' button but it does not work. First Aid on Macintosh HD stops...

Hi, I used the "Erase Free Space" option of the "Erase" tab of Disk Utility to ... erase free space! However, as I watched, Disk Utility said that (amongst other things) it was creating a temporary file. However, that continued...and continued such that it consumed all free space on the...

I would like to be able to use Disk Utility to restore an image to a hard drive over the network when booting from the Mac OS Install cd 1 (currently we use BootCD but it takes so much longer to load). I can't seem to get it to work over http, are there any special settings? The server right now...

UPDATE... Ignore my post below - I think I figured it out. 'repair disk' and 'repair disk permissions' are different and hence the Disk Utily message 'to repair the startup disk boot from cd' doesn't apply when repairing permissions. ------------- After a recent 'disaster' incident...

Sounds useful, but it doesn't appear on either my iBook or iMac (or when booted from the Panther 1 CD). Edit: In fact, it's not even in their screenshot... or am I looking in the wrong place or something? What's the deal? Here's a Panther-specific tip: at the bottom of the Disk Utility...

A friend of mine has a firewire drive that he uses on his PC at home however at school on our 1.42 G4's the drive doesnt show up on the desktop. It will open in the terminal through volumes and is present in disk utility, anyone else experience this or have any ideas on this problem. thanks

I used to use Disk copy to burn .dmg files. Seems as though apple merged disk copy into disk utility. You can still burn .dmgs, but it burns sessions... I can't figure out how to not burn sessions and just close the disk out instead. Is there a way?

I have an external firewire drive which I am trying to format. It is an HFS extended drive. When I open disc utility, the app quits when I go to the repair tab. I have run disk warrior on the drive - which works OK. Disc utility works fine on other drives. Any ideas?

I have drive 10 on my system right now, but when i start it up, it says that it's not written for my latest version of os x.2.3. Looking at reviews on the web and here (did a search), it doesn't seem like it's a good software to use. I remember reading that Norton System Works 2 also has...

Help :( I'm trying to get organized for the new year, and want to repartition my firewire hdd, so I've backed up my data, erased the firewire drive in Disk Utility and when I try to select the disk to repartition it, Disk Utility crashes. I've ejected the drive, rebooted reconnected the...

When running the Repair Permissions tool in Disk Utility (10.2.3), I get a permissions error that won't go away. I've run the repair tool, and it is always there, and I've booted from the 10.2 install CD and run the tool, with no luck. Here is what is reported: 2003-01-03 00:28:19 -0800 -...

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