My computer won't boot in regular or safe mode but I can get into single-user mode. I need to know if there is a way to put diskutil on my iPod touch and then boot from it and run diskutil that way or is there a way to burn a cd with Disk Utilities on it and run diskutil from that. Keep in mind I only have a PC now and I am not sure if it would be able to burn .dmg's or .app's.
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Need to run diskutil without install disk
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If you're in single user mode, try running the diskutil command (command line version of Disk Utility).
if you're trying to fix permissions on the boot disk, you can't do it by booting from the same disk; you have to boot from external media.
In single user mode if you want to check your drive just run
Anything more than that will require a GUI. diskutil doesn't work in single user mode.
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fsck -yfI have tried all of the above mentioned things minus booting from an external device. The last thing to do would be create a boot disk with disk utility on it. Is there a way to download disk utility and burn it to a cd from a PC. I have a feeling I could get disk utility but I don't know if a PC would be able to burn it to a disk. Let me know if this is possible.
I would love to do both of those, however I am currently in a country where they don't have Apple stores, and I would prefer to not wait until the 4th of January. Apparently there are some programs that can make boot disks or repair disks and I will try to do this.
did you find a solution to this? I'm looking to do this too. I still have access to my mac so I might see if I can copy over the program files to an external...
or wait til I can get my disk.
or wait til I can get my disk.
Should be too hard to make a boot dmg that you can put on a usb drive, should it?