i was looking up how to repair my disk for in case probloms i tried Comand r and other stuff it did not work then i saw a post about fdisk or somthing can you tell me about that please?
Dell Laptop, HP Desktop, iOS 4, I have two computers lap top desk top and i phone
Fdisk is a Windows utility. Mac has it's own Disk utility in the Utilities folder in the Apps Directory.
To repair your disk you need to be booted from another disk or the Recovery partition. Hold both the Command key and the R key down at the startup tone and you should enter the Recovery partition. Once there use utilities to access the disk utility.
Run Disk Utility in your Applications/utilities folder. It contains all the functionality you need to repair a disk, insofar as what is included with OS X.
If you want to do anyhing to your startup drive, then you have to run Disk Utility from another drive. In Lion, you use the Recovery Partition (boot to it by holding down the OPTION key right when you hear the starup chime, and slect the Recovery partition form the list of bootable drives).
Once booted to the Recovery Partition, select Disk Utility. Then select your startup drive, and run "Repair Permissions" and/or "Repair Disk".
This is a MacBook Air forum. Not to be rude but we don't really have answers for Windows problems here. You listed an iPhone but ther is a seperate Forum for that:
MAC OS 10.7 does have the fdisk function. I recently ran it from single user mode but it can also be run from terminal. In my case Disk Utility could not resolve an issue with the drive so I had to resort to the use of the fdisk command.
if problems with hard drive how can i use fdisk?
