Need to run diskutil without install disk

[dknight88]

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.

 

[Mumford]

If you're in single user mode, try running the diskutil command (command line version of Disk Utility).

 

[dknight88]

I have tried running the diskutil command but it doesn't work, it says that it doesn't work possibly because I was in single-user mode.

 

[old-wiz]

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.

 

[Darth.Titan]

In single user mode if you want to check your drive just run

fsck -yf

Anything more than that will require a GUI. diskutil doesn't work in single user mode.

 

[dknight88]

I 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.

 

[maflynn]

Make an appointment with an apple genius, they'll fix your computer in short order.

 

[jpefjr]

If you don't have your original OS install disks just buy Snow Leopard for $29 and then boot off of that. It has Disk Utility on it so you can run it on your hard drive after you boot off the DVD.

 

[dknight88]

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.

 

[jamesraward]

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.

 

[dknight88]

Being that I am overseas with virtually no options I am going to wait till I am able to get back home and just use my install disk. Thanks for all the help, if anything I learned a little bit more about my computer.

 

[jamesraward]

Being that I am overseas with virtually no options I am going to wait till I am able to get back home and just use my install disk. Thanks for all the help, if anything I learned a little bit more about my computer.

Should be too hard to make a boot dmg that you can put on a usb drive, should it?