Comments on: Repair Boot Disk in Mac OS X with Disk Utility & Recovery HD

By: Stephen Dill

Stephen Dill — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:22:18 +0000

Correction – Mountain Lion (10.8.1), not Lion. And fsck is a no-go, “Ownership of the affected disk is retired.” Time for an appointment at the Genius Bar.

By: Stephen Dill

Stephen Dill — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:42:57 +0000

This is not what i am seeing in Lion. Command–R goes right to the OS X Utilities screen you show, not a boot menu. But I cannot select any of the options, get the Continue button to go live, and bring up Disk Utility. The cursor moves, but nothing responds, top menu included. Numerous reboots, all with the same result.

Will try fsck next, but I suspect it’s off to the Apple Store I go.

By: Phil Miller

Phil Miller — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 02:23:29 +0000

thank you – I could not figure out why it told me to repair but then was greyed out – makes sense but it would have helped to have a hint to “unlock it.”

By: jason

jason — Fri, 25 May 2012 03:39:30 +0000

Webfox if I understand you correctly you have to “unlock” the disk first by right-clicking or control-click on the drive, select “unlock” (or whatever it is called), enter the password and then you may repair.

By: Webfox

Webfox — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:21:32 +0000

Not works when Startup disk is encrypted! No way to unlock the Startdisk and repair informs that repair is needed but not possible because disk is read-only… Any advice welcome. Lion is a bit more secure as good…

By: Edward

Edward — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:13:49 +0000

You can also run fsck from recovery by opening terminal and typing

/sbin/fsck -fy

Do this is Disk Utility fails

By: adam

adam — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:01:45 +0000

have you noticed this not works with RAID ?
Only commands line works