Disk utility for mac 10.9.5 manual#
Pogue's Missing Manual book he writes that the Recovery HD is "invisible" to Disk Utility. If I'm correct that the indented left sidebar entry ("Macintosh HD") refers to the Recovery HD, looking in D. I haven't tried to repair anything (not having any HD issues that I'm aware of), only to run Verify Disk - i.e., just to get a report of the health of the drive (i.e., just a diagnostic). Now, you can continue re-running First Aid to see if eventually it comes back and reports the drive is OK, or, if you have Disk Warrior, then I would run it to see if it has success at fixing the drive.Ĭan you boot from the Recovery HD? When you run Disk Utility from the Recovery HD does it report the startup volume as OK? If not, then there may only be a problem with the startup volume rather than with the HDD.
If Disk Utility cannot finish repairing the drive, then there is a problem with it. The volume Macintosh HD appears to be OK. Verifying volume “Macintosh HD” Checking file system. can take a while to complete it wasn't that.) Ran it 3 times yesterday, and it hung all three. If the SMART status is "Failed," then 90% of the time that is correct - replace the drive. If it does report the drive as "Verified," then you have to consider that 30% of the time that could be a false positive. Also, what did you see reported for the SMART status of the drive? If it does not report the drive as "Verified," then the drive is failing. I suggest you repeat this after booting from the Recovery HD. If Repair Disk does not find or repair any errors, then it will report the volume as being OK. Are you sure it is hanging or just taking a while to finish? This does occur when you are doing a Live Verify of the startup volume. You must select that individually for verify or repair. But doing so does not verify or repair the logical device. There is a difference between selecting the out-dented entry - the physical device - and the indented entry - a volume or partition on the physical device (sometimes called the logical device.) You can Verify the physical device as well as repair it, but it doesn't take long to finish.