Hey alex, I had that same issue many times. In short, you're screwed. Unless you have an external HD and a way of hardwiring it up and accessing your data, you're going to have to go from scratch.
Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 On Jun 5, 2014, at 2:03 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
