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Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 4, 2014, at 8:00 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I just ran a disk verification. An article I found said to highlight both my > main drive and the boot partition, so I did. After a little while, I got this > error: > Error: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your > computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the Apple > logo. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility. > > First, do i need to worry about this? * Yes. If you leave it too long, you may lose data. > Second, if I do, will the recovery process it wants me to run erase any data? * No, it shouldn't. What you need to run in Disk Utility on is the Repair Disk option. This needs to be done from the Recovery Partition because this operation can't be performed on a running system. Normally, if you still have "normal" operation, Disk Utility will be able to fix the problem easily. If your drive was not starting up, then Disk Utility sometimes is unable to make the necessary repairs. > Third, is this indicative of serious problems, given that I ran a clean > install on this machine only a couple months ago? * It's telling you that something in the directory structure or other allocations is corrupt. Not uncommon but if it persists, then there could be physical problems with the drive. HTH. > Thanks. > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > mehg...@icloud.com > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
