Geek Posted February 8, 2012 Posted February 8, 2012 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/repair-disk-disk-utility.jpg" alt="Repair Disk with Disk Utility " title="repair-disk-disk-utility" width="601" height="375" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26968" /></p> <p>If you have tried to repair the boot volume before in Mac OS X before, you’ll undoubtedly have found the “Repair Disk” option is grey and unavailable within the Disk Utility tool. While this is still the case while booted in OS X Lion, you <em>can</em> repair the Mac OS X boot disk thanks to Lion’s Recovery Partition, preventing the need from using an external boot drive to repair the disk.</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/repair-disk.jpg" alt="Repair Disk unavailable" title="repair-disk" width="514" height="83" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26971" /> Once booted into Recovery mode you’ll find the limitations on Disk Utility’s repair function has been removed, here’s how to do that.</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Repairing a Mac Boot Disk with Disk Utility & OS X Lion</h2> <ul> <li>Reboot the Mac and hold down Command+R to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/03/how-to-boot-into-os-x-lions-recovery-hd-partition/">boot into Recovery</a></li> <li>Select “Recovery HD” at the boot menu</li> <li>At the Mac OS X Utilities screen, select “Disk Utility”</li> <li>Select the boot volume or partition from the left menu and click on the “Repair” tab</li> <li>Repair Disk is now possible, click on “Repair Disk” to repair the boot volume</li> </ul> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/repair-disk-boot-volume.jpg" alt="Repair Disk on Boot Volume" title="repair-disk-boot-volume" width="525" height="422" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26967" /></p> <p>While you’re in Recovery mode, you may also want to verify disk permissions and repair them, <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/15/repair-user-permissions-in-mac-os-x-lion/">repair user permissions</a>, and verify and repair other disks as well.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/btqNUOLYm54kh2Tuvv2aR8h4W4M/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/btqNUOLYm54kh2Tuvv2aR8h4W4M/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/btqNUOLYm54kh2Tuvv2aR8h4W4M/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/btqNUOLYm54kh2Tuvv2aR8h4W4M/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=Z4TcgmQMZ9I:BxE8rwsZrR0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=Z4TcgmQMZ9I:BxE8rwsZrR0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=Z4TcgmQMZ9I:BxE8rwsZrR0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=Z4TcgmQMZ9I:BxE8rwsZrR0:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=Z4TcgmQMZ9I:BxE8rwsZrR0:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=Z4TcgmQMZ9I:BxE8rwsZrR0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=Z4TcgmQMZ9I:BxE8rwsZrR0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/Z4TcgmQMZ9I" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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