Repairing OS X disks in a GUI

May 16, '01 02:35:53PM

Contributed by: Anonymous

If you have filesystem errors, Mac OS X doesn't allow you to repair the startup disk, so you need to boot from a CD to run a repair utility. Of course if you formatted your drive in UFS, tools like Disk First Aid and Norton Utilities won't be able to do anything for you. However, Apple has provided a solution.

If you boot from the OS X install CD, you can go to the Installer menu, and choose "Open Disk Utility...". This will allow you to test and repair both UFS and HFS+ disks, without having to venture into the scary land of terminals and Single User Mode.

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