disk utility stopped verifying; need repair... over and over and over

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disk utility stopped verifying; need repair... over and over and over

I've gone through the restart, Command+R drill 4 times. Repaired the disk using "Disk Utility." Restarted after repair, ran disk utility to verify the repair and BAM disk utility stops verifying and instructs me to restart ... etc.

The errors have been consistent: orphaned blocks, invalid volume free block count. But when I use utility disk after restarting and pressing command+r, the "repair disk" does not appear to do anythign beyond "Load and Verify" freespace summary and block accounting. Am I missing a step?

Any suggestions appreciated.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 2.9 GHz i7; 8GB DDR3

Posted on Jan 2, 2013 1:47 AM

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Answer 1

sig

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Jan 2, 2013 5:05 AM in response to poppalocs

If Disk Utility cannot repair the disk then you need a stonger disk repair utility like Disk Warrior. Your other option is to reformat the hard drive and reinstall your files.

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poppalocs Author

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Jan 2, 2013 8:58 AM in response to sig

Thank you for the recommendation. I will look into Disk Warrior.

After originally posting I continued searching the forums and, of course, google. During my search I came across the following support article that essentially says to ignore the problem. http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2028

Thoughts?

Btw, I don't know if I have a "journaled" disk or not.

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TildeBee

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Jan 2, 2013 10:10 AM in response to poppalocs

poppa --

Repaired the disk using "Disk Utility."

Are you talking about Repairing Permissions using DU, or Repairing Disk via the Install Disk?

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sig

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Jan 2, 2013 3:13 PM in response to TildeBee

Hi Bee, based upon the OP's initial post I am assuming he means Repair Disk.

"The errors have been consistent: orphaned blocks, invalid volume free block count."

Those would show up on a Repair Disk not a Repair Permissions.

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poppalocs Author

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Jan 2, 2013 5:07 PM in response to sig

Correct. But to answer Bee, I use disk utility via restart, Command+R.

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poppalocs Author

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Jan 2, 2013 5:09 PM in response to TildeBee

Any thoughts on the support article stating that the "errors" can be ignored?

Seems like someone at Apple oughta be able to design DU to advise user (such as moi) that the error can be ignored...wishful (ignorant) thinking.

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sig

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Jan 3, 2013 12:18 AM in response to poppalocs

That article does not pertain to the OS you are running. "This article has been archived and is no longer updated by Apple."

It pertains to using fsck not Disk Utility for:

Products Affected

Mac OS X 10.3.9, Mac OS X 10.4, Mac OS X 10.5, Mac OS X Server 10.2, Mac OS X Server 10.3, Mac OS X Server 10.4, Mac OS X Server 10.4.7, Mac OS X Server 10.5

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TildeBee

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Jan 3, 2013 5:00 AM in response to sig

Hi sig --

Got it, thanks. I keep forgetting there are no more "disks!"

😉

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poppalocs Author

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Jan 3, 2013 9:46 AM in response to sig

Yah, I saw that. But being that the underlying issue is the same; right now I'm leaning toward just ignoring it. The only reason I even know the "issue" exists is because I decided to verify the disk. Since I don't have any issues with startup, shutdown, etc., I'm going to continue to look for solutions short of formatting and resintallation.

Anyway, thank you for taking the time to suggest a solution.

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