DISK UTILITY - WHERE DO I FIND IT?

For disk repair, start from the upgrade install disk: don't start an install; from the Utilities menu choose Disk Utility.

For Permissions repair it's better to use the Disk Utility in Applications/Utilities.

What I described is apparently the usual behaviour but I don't have the Leopard upgrade disk so I can't advise (I'm sure someone else on here would know).

if you really can't get it to work there is a method, though Apple advise that using Disk Utility is preferable: hold command-s while booting to get into single-user mode. Wait for all the scrolling text to stop and then type exactly this:

fsck -fy

noting the space before the hyphen: hit the return key. Don't get creative and type anything else: you can do a lot of damage that way.

It will run a Disk Repair with the usual reports. If it says 'File system was modified' run it again. if it says 'The disk xxx appears to be OK' type

exit

to boot into the OS. But try to find Disk Utility on the install disk first, that would be preferable.

Steps for using Disk Utility

1. Insert your Mac OS X Install DVD, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair.
If you repair errors run it until no errors found.



-mj

Go to------->Applications-->Utilities--->Disk Utility