Disk utility stopped repairing macintosh hd

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Disk utility stopped repairing macintosh hd

I tried to install windows 10 iso by using bootcamp. During the disk partitioning for windows, its shown "your disk couldn't be partitioned". then i tried solve by using disk utility and click verify disk. At the time of verifing result shown in another dialog box"disk utility stopped repairing macintosh hd".

"disk utility stopped repairing macintosh hd".-This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the Apple logo. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility.

I tried those method also but after restarting the mac i checked disk utility with verify disk then again same dialog box with same message shown.

How can I solve this error.

Thanks,

Arun

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Mar 6, 2015 9:27 AM

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Answer 1

my ginger

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Mar 6, 2015 9:51 AM in response to arunachalamfromtanjore

When in disk utilities are you running a verify of the boot volume? Or is there a partition that you are trying to verify. Verifying a disk repairs nothing. If it. needs repaired ,you should have gotten a message that the disk/Name of disk/ could not be verified. When you ran the repair in recovery mode, did it tell you that the volume Mackintosh HD appears to be OK? Or something else? Window 10 requires a minimum of 16GB of free disk space to install. Is it posable your disk is too full? Did you try to repair permissions?

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Answer 2

Mar 6, 2015 10:15 AM in response to my ginger

The disk is not full. i am facing issue while partitioningthe disc in boot camp menu. what can be done to solve

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Answer 3

my ginger

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Mar 6, 2015 10:41 AM in response to arunachalamfromtanjore

Are you using FileVault? If you are ,you need to go to system preferences /security FileVault and turn it off. It will take some time to do this so do not turn off the computer till it finishes. Then go to recovery and repair the drive and permissions. Run it till it comes back as appears to be ok. If this is not the case and you keep getting this error. You might need to backup files and erase your drive and reinstall.

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Answer 4

Mar 6, 2015 11:08 AM in response to my ginger

Is this right way to turn off file vault.

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Answer 5

my ginger

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Mar 6, 2015 11:33 AM in response to arunachalamfromtanjore

Yes. You will have to wait until it finishes before you can go back to disk utilities. Don't turn it off.

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Mar 6, 2015 11:38 AM in response to my ginger

After finish and turned off file vault,is required go to recovery mode for verifying disk utilities ?

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my ginger

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Mar 6, 2015 11:50 AM in response to arunachalamfromtanjore

It would be a very good idea. You could not install Windows 10 because of the error you where getting. Boot camp needed access to free space and because the count was off it could not install. I am hoping this is because of you having FileVault on.

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Answer 8

Mar 6, 2015 11:55 AM in response to my ginger

It means without verifying disk utilities is possible to use boot camp assistant and can i create disk partition for windows 10?

Thanks,

Arun

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Answer 9

my ginger

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Mar 6, 2015 12:04 PM in response to arunachalamfromtanjore

When FileVault finishes decrypting you want to go back to recovery and run the disk repair again. As long as you get the same errors you will not be able to install Window 10. The only other alternative you would have is to completely erase your drive and reinstall everything.

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Answer 10

Mar 6, 2015 9:20 PM in response to my ginger

Disk verified successfully Thanks & now i opened boot camp assistant by following the screen shots i copied windows 10 iso which is in usb2 16 gb. Then during formatting

"your bootable usb drive could not be created"- an error accrued.....

How can i solve this & formatting usb

Thanks

Arun

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Answer 11

my ginger

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Mar 7, 2015 9:50 AM in response to arunachalamfromtanjore

Are you trying to install Widows 10 from a usb thumb or flash drive? And install it through bootcamp to your internal drive? Or are you trying to make a bootable external windows 10 drive? What media is the windows 10 software on?The message you are getting is form creating a bootable windows 10 drive. That usb drive has to be formatted for fat 32. It cannot be mac formatted.https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203909 If you have the windows iso on your mac and the usb 16gb drive is getting errors you should try erasing the flash drive or whatever it is and formatting it for windows. Then go through the setup again in bootcamp https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5819?locale=en_US

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