How do you repair disk on Leopard OSX?

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How do you repair disk on Leopard OSX?

I'm trying to upgrade to snow leopard and eventually Lion but to do this I need to partition space using bootcamp assistant and boot from it."This is a trick my friend showed me" And when I go to partition it after a minute an error comes up saying "Verification Failed. This Disk could not be partitioned use Disk Utility to repair"

So my question is how do i do this haha I went to disk utility and the disk repair button is greyed out I have the install cds that came with my macbook but im not sure how to use them to repair the disk any guidance would be much appreciated 🙂

"Apple told me they no longer sell the snow leopard cd's I must download it"

Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Jun 21, 2012 2:41 PM

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Kappy

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Jun 21, 2012 2:43 PM in response to kmaguire457

Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions

Boot from your Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.

If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.

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