recovery hd

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i wonder if somebody could help me when using disk utility message appears this disk needs to be repaired using recovery hd .
by using this will i lose any files ? i tried to back up to external hard drive but unable to do so thats another problem .
any help would be much appreciated
 
No, you won't lose any files, just by booting to your recovery system.

If Disk Utility reports a problem that needs a repair of the file system, it generally cannot fix a directory problem WHILE you are booted to the same system. The next step is to boot to ANOTHER system, and repair your hard drive from there. You have much greater chance for success then...
The Repair system is on a hidden partition on your hard drive.
Very simple to use... Restart your Mac, while holding Command-R.
You will boot to the repair system, with a window showing various choices. Choose Disk Utility. Now, you will be able to choose Repair Disk (not Repair Disk Permissions, which will not help in this situation)
If the Repair Disk reports errors that it fixes, run Repair Disk again, until no problems are found. If the same problem is listed every time, then the Disk Utility may not be capable of the repair, and you may need to go to something more capable, such as Disk Warrior (you would need to purchase that)
If the Repair Disk completes successfully, you can restart your Mac. You may then find that the backup that you were trying to perform - may finish this time.
Come back if you get errors that you can't fix with Disk Utility.
 
No, you won't lose any files, just by booting to your recovery system.

If Disk Utility reports a problem that needs a repair of the file system, it generally cannot fix a directory problem WHILE you are booted to the same system. The next step is to boot to ANOTHER system, and repair your hard drive from there. You have much greater chance for success then...
The Repair system is on a hidden partition on your hard drive.
Very simple to use... Restart your Mac, while holding Command-R.
You will boot to the repair system, with a window showing various choices. Choose Disk Utility. Now, you will be able to choose Repair Disk (not Repair Disk Permissions, which will not help in this situation)
If the Repair Disk reports errors that it fixes, run Repair Disk again, until no problems are found. If the same problem is listed every time, then the Disk Utility may not be capable of the repair, and you may need to go to something more capable, such as Disk Warrior (you would need to purchase that)
If the Repair Disk completes successfully, you can restart your Mac. You may then find that the backup that you were trying to perform - may finish this time.
Come back if you get errors that you can't fix with Disk Utility.

thank you i will give it a try now
 
No, you won't lose any files, just by booting to your recovery system.

If Disk Utility reports a problem that needs a repair of the file system, it generally cannot fix a directory problem WHILE you are booted to the same system. The next step is to boot to ANOTHER system, and repair your hard drive from there. You have much greater chance for success then...
The Repair system is on a hidden partition on your hard drive.
Very simple to use... Restart your Mac, while holding Command-R.
You will boot to the repair system, with a window showing various choices. Choose Disk Utility. Now, you will be able to choose Repair Disk (not Repair Disk Permissions, which will not help in this situation)
If the Repair Disk reports errors that it fixes, run Repair Disk again, until no problems are found. If the same problem is listed every time, then the Disk Utility may not be capable of the repair, and you may need to go to something more capable, such as Disk Warrior (you would need to purchase that)
If the Repair Disk completes successfully, you can restart your Mac. You may then find that the backup that you were trying to perform - may finish this time.
Come back if you get errors that you can't fix with Disk Utility.

yep that worked cheers
 
Glad you got it sorted out...
In future - you really don't need to quote previous posts every time you respond - especially with only a handful of posts, I think other folks will be able to figure out what you were answering.
Takes up less space, too. (and takes care of one my pet peeves, all at the same time :D )
- Dale
 
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