[X Newbies] Disk first aid button grayed out

[Scott]

On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 2:02 AM, Nessie wrote:

> ** 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...
>

In the same 'might be obvious' vein, are you booted to CD? You can't 
repair your boot drive with DUFA if you are currently booted to it. The 
volume also may not be visible - you might need to single click the 
disclosure triangle (to the left of "55.89 Hitachi").

In hopes of preventing another obviousity:
When you upgrade to 10.2 (or 10.3), you'll have an option to repair 
permissions in Disk Utility. To repair permissions, you *do* want to be 
booted from the hard drive, not from the cd, and you want to select the 
volume (name) not the device (capacity).

-- 
Scott