Disk utility problems

[adam-royles]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to repair my disk so I can install bootcamp, but when I reboot my machine and run disk utility and choose repair disk, it hangs. Does anyone have any ideas ?

thanks

Adam

 

[GfulDedFan]

Are you restarting your machine with your restore disk 1 in the optical drive, immediately holding down the c key, and choosing your restore disk 1 as the startup disk and running Disk Utility from it?

 

[adam-royles]

Are you restarting your machine with your restore disk 1 in the optical drive, immediately holding down the c key, and choosing your restore disk 1 as the startup disk and running Disk Utility from it?

Hi, yes I'm doing all that, it prompts me for a language then after that I choose utilities and disk utilities. I get the spinning beach ball when I press repair disk and thats it... perhaps I need to leave it longer than 5-6 mins ??

Thanks

Adam

 

[GfulDedFan]

It usually takes much longer. Give it more like 30-60 minutes and see if it finishes.

 

[adam-royles]

Its been running for about 45 mins now and still no status bar, just a spinning beach ball ??

 

[GfulDedFan]

Sounds like that disk has a problem. Why are you running Repair Disk in order to install BootCamp? Have you been having problems with the disk?

 

[adam-royles]

When I try to install bootcamp it says that it unable to do it. Acting upon advice from others I have tried to repair the disk using disk utility. Is there any other ways around this ? Would it be possible to make an image of my disk, format it, then put the image back on ?

Thanks

Adam

 

[GfulDedFan]

Would it be possible to make an image of my disk, format it, then put the image back on ?

Yes... this would be a bootable clone backup which can be performed by an application like SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner. To create a bootable clone, you will need an external hard drive.

 

[adam-royles]

Yes... this would be a bootable clone backup which can be performed by an application like SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner. To create a bootable clone, you will need an external hard drive.

Thanks for the tips, I'll make an image, wipe the drive, reformat and install, hopefully that should do it.

Cheers

Adam