Disk Error on Hackintosh

[dadi_oh]

I was playing in the disk utility and decided to run a verify on my main boot drive. It found errors as shown in the attachment. It wants me to boot with another machine and fix the disk. Are these errors a real issue or are they related to the "hacking" of the PC to run snow leopard? Machine is running fine so I am a bit reluctant to mess it all up by trying to fix these errors. Anyone else seen this on their Hack?

disk_error.tiff

[Dellmantt]

I was playing in the disk utility and decided to run a verify on my main boot drive. It found errors as shown in the attachment. It wants me to boot with another machine and fix the disk. Are these errors a real issue or are they related to the "hacking" of the PC to run snow leopard? Machine is running fine so I am a bit reluctant to mess it all up by trying to fix these errors. Anyone else seen this on their Hack?

IMO nothing to do with being a Hack.

If you have info you can't afford to lose, get yourself a backup. I use external drive, cloned with "Carbon Copy Cloner" and with Chameleon bootloader installed to it.

 

To repair boot in single user mode (-s), type fsck -fy at the prompt. If it says "system modified", repeat till it says "System OK", the type exit or reboot

[dadi_oh]

IMO nothing to do with being a Hack.

If you have info you can't afford to lose, get yourself a backup. I use external drive, cloned with "Carbon Copy Cloner" and with Chameleon bootloader installed to it.

 

To repair boot in single user mode (-s), type fsck -fy at the prompt. If it says "system modified", repeat till it says "System OK", the type exit or reboot

 

I have an external hard disk as a time machine so I guess I am covered if something goes wrong. Just not sure if things mess up that the traditional method of recovery from a time machine works with a Hack? That is, start the install and then point it to the time machine to get all the settings and programs back?

 

I do use Superduper rather than CCC but maybe that is a better idea? Make a disk clone onto the external drive. And then apply the Chameleon bootloader to the external?

 

I am just really cautious about messing up my stable Hack since this is my server for the house.

 

Thanks

[Dellmantt]

I have an external hard disk as a time machine so I guess I am covered if something goes wrong. Just not sure if things mess up that the traditional method of recovery from a time machine works with a Hack? That is, start the install and then point it to the time machine to get all the settings and programs back?

 

I do use Superduper rather than CCC but maybe that is a better idea? Make a disk clone onto the external drive. And then apply the Chameleon bootloader to the external?

 

I am just really cautious about messing up my stable Hack since this is my server for the house.

 

Thanks

Personally I don't like "Time Machine", too many bad stories about it. I use CCC because I know it works (and its free)

 

If "Disk Utility" is showing errors you could lose your install anyway. Bite the bullet, backup & attempt repair. Download & run "SMART Utility too.

If you installed from a "Distro" (shudder), you could run disk utility from that, or from a boot cd/retail install disk. But fsck -fy in single user mode is easy.

[dadi_oh]

Personally I don't like "Time Machine", too many bad stories about it. I use CCC because I know it works (and its free)

 

If "Disk Utility" is showing errors you could lose your install anyway. Bite the bullet, backup & attempt repair. Download & run "SMART Utility too.

If you installed from a "Distro" (shudder), you could run disk utility from that, or from a boot cd/retail install disk. But fsck -fy in single user mode is easy.

 

I did a vanilla install so OK there. But it has been quite a long time since I did the process so really hoping not to go through that again

 

I am in the middle of shuffling around some of my video storage disks on the machine so will try this at the end of that.

 

Many Thanks