Q: Disk Utility
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Jun 5, 2013 5:52 PMby Kappy,10.5 is Leopard, so I assume you meant you lost your Snow Leopard disc. But for what do you need to used Disk Utility? You can repair permissions without the DVD, but you cannot repair the hard drive unless you boot from something other than the disk you are now using - the startup disk.
We really can't help much unless you tell us what is actually your problem.
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Jun 5, 2013 6:16 PMby James Creek,ok I lost or can't find the snow leopard installtion disc. I have the 10.5 install disc. I need to use the disk utility on the 10.5 install disc to do a disc repair, not permissions repair. I am using the startup disk in system prefs to switch to the install disc but this macbook is not allowing that, just ejects the disc.
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Jun 5, 2013 7:00 PMby Kappy,Then do this instead. Don't use the Leopard disc.
Boot into single-user mode. After startup is completed you will be in command line mode and should see a prompt with a cursor positioned after it. At the prompt enter the following then press RETURN:
/sbin/mount -uw /
/sbin/fsck -fy
If you receive a message that says "***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****" then re-run the command until you receive a message that says "** The volume (name_of_volume) appears to be OK." If you re-run the command more than seven times and do not get the OK message, then the drive cannot be repaired this way. If you were successful then enter:
reboot
and press RETURN to restart the computer.
I suggest your print out these instructions and be sure you enter them correctly. Mind where there are spaces.
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Jun 5, 2013 7:44 PMby James Creek,I entered the command lines as suggested but two messages came on;
The volume macintosh hd cannot be repaired when it is in use.
The volume macintosh hd could not be repaired.
in use? I shut everything down and restarted to single-user mode. what application or program is in use?
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Mar 7, 2015 1:29 PMby JosepLatif,Hey I happen to be in the same exact position! I need to repair my volume hd in my 10.6.8 but I lost the DVD too, and I have the 10.5 one. How did it work for you? I asked here and they told me doing that would downgrade my computer to 10.5 and that I would have to buy the 10.6 DVD.
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Mar 8, 2015 1:02 AMby K Shaffer,See method Kappy described, to perform the task without using the incorrect
install-restore DVD, (since you can't boot from a 10.5 install DVD to use that
version of Disk Utility, to repair an existing 10.6.8 system) the prescribed path
says to use Single user mode; that original link (in blue, in that post) fails now.
For instructions to perform access as suggested in above answer, see this link:
•Mac OS X: How to start up in single-user or verbose mode - Apple Support
To see how that may play into the overall picture, if you have no command-line
or single-user mode experience, you may have a learning curve. See basics:
http://www.tekrevue.com/tip/mac-startup-options/
Troubleshooting startup issues, resolving some, or see Specialist/genius.
•Mac OS X: Gray screen appears during startup - Apple Support
Or you could contact Apple sales online or main site, to purchase new retail
Snow Leopard 10.6 DVD; you'd need to tell the operating system specialist
your computer's serial number to be sure it would be a correct match. ($20)
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
Good luck & happy computing!
