"Volume Needs Repair" - How?

Mr Jones · 24 Jun 2007 at 16:04

I was trying to make a partition of OS X via bootcamp assistant to install XP - it have an error in varification of disk, so I used disk assistant to varify and it reported error

"Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit

1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair"

The question is, the Repair Disk button is greyed out, what do I do now?

Thanks.

toosepin · 24 Jun 2007 at 16:16

I had the exact thing the other day. I started panicking because there didn't seem to be any solution (I googled to high heaven)

Anyway, here's the solution:

Stick in your original discs and boot of your installer DVD. Once in there, cancel the OS Installation and go to Disk Uitility. Once in there very and repair the discs like you would normally. That should solve it.

The problem before is it couldn't repair your drive whilst you were booted from it.

Mr Jones · 24 Jun 2007 at 16:23

Thanks, gonna go try it out now...

Mr Jones · 24 Jun 2007 at 23:03

It worked! Thanks!

But I came into a problem, I partition my bootcamp for XP, 6GB
but now I'm running short, how can I increase space for my XP partition without reinstalling again?

Thanks

J1234 · 24 Jun 2007 at 23:09

Dr Jones said:
It worked! Thanks!

But I came into a problem, I partition my bootcamp for XP, 6GB
but now I'm running short, how can I increase space for my XP partition without reinstalling again?

Thanks

You could try iPartition.

toosepin · 25 Jun 2007 at 18:02

I remember doing that as well!

I had to take a disc image of my Windows partition and then resize the partition using iPartition. I then copied the Windows image back into the partition and it worked.

A lot of effort - but little in comparison to doing the whole thing again.

Mr Jones · 25 Jun 2007 at 22:07

I did the whole thing again, was simplier and free - thanks anyway, now Ive got 10GB worth of xp and games on - wanted to play Civilisation 4 with my little bro on LAN, that's why.

It ran surprisingly well...

E1mo · 26 Jun 2007 at 13:39

OS X cant fix some disk problems if its mounted read/write so as the previous poster said the easiest way of doing it is to run the OS X install disk where it will mount the partition read only.