Finder stopped working, no desktop either

[lilcosco08]

So I booted up my MBP today, and to my surprise, my desktop icons were missing. When I tried to click on the desktop, it just started to beachball for all eternity. So I opened up the force quit menu, it wasn't responding. After a relaunch, it did the same thing. After some research, I found that a restart should fix it. No luck. I need help. I can't open any folders. Everything is running sluggish as well.
Any ideas?

 

[lilcosco08]

tried permission repair
no luck

 

[lilcosco08]

First aid found the volume corrupt

Hopefully booting from disk+disk aid will work!!

 

[Helixc0de]

Try to reinstall the operating system. If all else fails give a call to apple. Or take it to a apple genuis bar.

 

[lilcosco08]

Try to reinstall the operating system. If all else fails give a call to apple. Or take it to a apple genuis bar.

I'm saving that as a last resort.

Anyone know how a solution to the invalid sibling link error?

 

[calderone]

I'm saving that as a last resort.

Anyone know how a solution to the invalid sibling link error?

Try Disk Utility (repair disk) from the install DVD or some other disk repair utility.

 

[lilcosco08]

Try Disk Utility (repair disk) from the install DVD or some other disk repair utility.

Disk utility, no luck
All other disk repairs are mac only. Pretty useless when this is the only mac in the house and the OS X partition stopped booting

In disk utility, Is it possible to just backup+restore 1 partition instead of the whole drive? My Ubuntu+win 7 parts work perfectly

 

[lilcosco08]

Is it possible to create an IMG of my OS X partition in Win 7 and restore from that in disk utility?

 

[snaky69]

Is it possible to create an IMG of my OS X partition in Win 7 and restore from that in disk utility?

No, not as far as I know.

 

[lilcosco08]

Another question, I backed up under the restore tab in disk utility

How would I restore it when I reinstall OS X?