Error: Storage system verify or repair failed

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Ah! The proverbial missing information. Then, call them again and make an appointment for an Apple Store visit. I don't have any machines w/SSDs, so you'll have to deal with experts.

I doubt that that is an encryption issue, but I have to admit that I don't use any form of whole-disk encryption, so I don't really know. How is your drive encrypted?

My suspicion is that this has nothing to do with encryption, and that the partition map has simply become too corrupt to repair. It probably just needs to be repartitioned.

Yes, that's why I'm recommending repartitioning (by which, I should be more specific, I mean that you need to recreate all partitions, thus erasing the entire hard drive).

I have exactly the same issue as you since 05/06/2012. On start up my screen shows a loading bar like on the iphone during a software update. My set up is the same as yours with encryption.I can also repair the Macintosh

HD but not the top level 250.06 GB. I looks this might be an encryption problem but now I'm wondering was there a software update that is conflicting with the encryption. Did you luck getting yours sorted?

Running OSX Lion 10.7.4

This errror happen to me this Week End.

On french system that give:

Vérification de la carte de partition pour « ... »

...

Erreur : La vérification ou la réparation du système de stockage a échoué.

I spend time to backup, reinitialize and restore my Hard Disk. Everything was fine until I reactivated FileVault.

So if you get this error when you have FileVault activated, dont worry. It look like a false error detection in Disk Utilities application.

I don't think it is ok. I remember checking it a while back and it woud come out clean. Something happened to corrupt the partition table and I'm not sure how to restore it!

I am experiencing the same thing (same red error in disk utility once fully booted). I shut down and restarted in diag/recovery mode (holding command-R) and ran the disk utility from there. It found no errors with the drive from there but trying to verify the volume within that partition does nothing (click on the button and nothing happens). This seems to be consistent with an encryption related bug -- disk utility wouldn't be able to check that volume if it's encrypted.

I boot into the full GUI and run disk utility and it gives the same red error again. This is almost certainly a recently introduced bug.

I wonder when Apple will figure out how to do file system encryption without major bugs (try to use an encrypted USB backup drive with time machine --> works one day and then it will never do another backup again). Apple + ecryption = broken.

This appears to be a bug in the Disk Utility version included with OS X 10.7.4.

The way to isolate is to run the Recovery HD (Hold Command-R at boot) and repeat Verify Disk. You'll see it finds no error.

10.7.4 includes Disk Utility 12.1.1, whereas Recovery HD with 10.7.4 remains at 12.1.0.

As a result, I think this is clearly a bug in Disk Utility that can be ignored. If you're still concerned you may have a corrupt encrypted drive, boot into Recovery HD to verify.

My sert up looks simple in 10.6 and 10.7 disk utility 500GB Physical HD

slightly to the right virtual volume partition (icon)1 Mountain Lion

2 Lion

3 Snowleopard

4 empty

In Lion Disk Utiity on First Aid if I choose 500HD and repair disk In red it states alert storage system verify or repair failed disk permissions are greyed out that means they can not be clicked.

If I choose Mountain lion (I am booted in Lion) it will repair permissions and veryfy and repair disk.

If I choose Lion (I am booted in Lion) it will verify and repair permissions but only verify disk. NOT repair !

( it is said it can not repair itself so we need to be booted into lion recovery disk disk utilities)

If I choose Snow leopard (I am booted in Lion) it will verify and repair permissions and verify and repair disk.

In Mountain lion the partition map or set up is strange.

500GB Physical HD

slightly to the left virtual volume partition (icon) 1 Lion

slightly to the right virtual volume partition (icon) 2 Lion

slightly to the right virtual volume partition (icon) mountain Lion

slightly to the left virtual volume partition (icon) mountain Lion

3 Snowleopard

4 empty

Do I have 6 partitions 2 Lions 2 Mountain lions?

And on Mountain lion and lion on sub volume only FirstAid and Partition is shown not erase or restore !

In Snow leopard disk utility Mountain lion and lion shows as incompatable so can even partitioned or repaired.

When partitioning and installing 3 OSX's on 1 HD the partition table changes with Mountain lion and Lion.

And if you have Vile fault turned on you can not access the Mountain lion and lion repair permissions and repair disk ,also can not access the recovery disk when booting using options.

That means you have to turn Vilefault or Gate keeper off.

Apple Japan said it does not support more than one OS per HD !

It is a resl mess they do not fix these things and show photes and explanations of different scenrios on disk utility.

we want to use all our OSX/s on the same machine because many applications do not work on different platforms.

They should work out a solution when bring out new OS

Mountain Lion changes the appearance/structure of disks presented when CoreStorage is enabled.

That would explain why your disk view looks different when booting between Snow Leopard/Lion and Mountain Lion.

The reason for the change is to better articulate that the partition map cannot be changed once CoreStorage/FileVault2 is enabled on a drive.

Apple has not documented why a drive cannot be repartitioned until CoreStorage is disabled, just that is the rule.

Apple Japan may not provide technical support when booting multiple versions of OS X, but it is fully supported by the operating system.