Thanks Tim, but things got worse. :) I ran the repair from the Recovery HD, and it said the disk could not be repaired. It now tells me to reformat and reinstall the OS, but as I said, I did just that a couple months back. Worse still, my Mac no longer boots! I have a Macbook for my business which I'm using now, and I have a backup of my important files, but still, my Mini is my main computer. Any other suggestions you or anyone else has would be great. On Jun 5, 2014, at 12:35 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > Answers below in your text. > > 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. -- 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.
