[X Newbies] Disk first aid button grayed out

[Nessie]

** The highly regarded David Brian Brown, on or about 28.6.2003 9:03 Uhr, is
reputed to have said:

> I need to run disk first aid on my 600mhz ibook 10.1.5,  I go to the
> Disk Utility and click on the First Aid tab and then click on my hard
> drive at the left under disks and volumes.  But when I go to click on
> Repair and/or Verify they are both still grayed out.  This is really
> frustrating, I have been messing with this all night.  The Apple support
> seems to have nothing about this.  Anyone have any idea whats going on?

This might be to obvious, still it's worth to check:
Are you sure you didn't select the "volume" of your hard disk (listed
slightly intended in "disk & volumes"?

"Repair Disk" and "Verify Disk" will only become available if you select the
hard drive itself (it's name always starts with the size, like "55,89 GB
HITACHI" followed by something like the manufacturer name and is NOT
intended in the list). Just guessing...

/roland