My iMac has been doing strange things today. I have run Onyx and it  
says I have an issue with the start up disk and has suggested I use  
Disk Utility to repair the disc.

Disk Utility has confirmed that my HD does need repairing but it won't  
et me i.e. the Repair Disk button is greyed out!!

So can anyone advise how I can repair said disk?

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Many Thanks
Pete

You can't run Disk Repair on the disk you started up from.  Boot from  
the installation DVD or a backup bootable volume and hen run Disk  
Utility to repair the disk
On 21 May 2009, at :21 May 092219, Peter Boynton wrote:

Cheers Rick I'll give it a stan tomorrow.
Pete

Sent from my iPhone

On 21 May 2009, at 22:27, Rick Squires <rick.squi...@ntlworld.com>  
wrote:

Try booting from the OSX install disk, click through some of the  
language screens and then use Disk Utility from the top menu. It may  
be able to repair the drive. Make sure it's the same base version of  
OS X (eg 10.4 disk to fix a 10.4.x installation drive).
I can't quite make it out in the screen shot but it seems like you  
have catalog errors? Disk Warrior ($99.95) is pretty good at fixing  
these, but a backup would be wise if you can do so before making the  
fixes, SuperDuper! will clone a drive (for free).

Re:co

On 21 May 2009, at 22:19, Peter Boynton wrote:

My guest, from Canada, has included his Nokia among his washing.  We  
have dried it overnight but have not revived it. It is important for  
our guest that he gets some data off the phone's own storage - rather  
than the SIM.

Does anyone know of a suitably qualified magician?

DAvid

David

If it has been through the washing machine already you've nothing to  
lose. I suggest you purchase some deionised water and flush the phone  
out again as the soap residues may cause a short circuit. Take the SIM  
card out first.

Then you need to dry it out very slowly (say on top of a radiator) and  
hope for the best.

Not sure of any magicians myself - I never did like David Blane

Pete

On 29 Jun 2009, at 10:05, David Lambourn wrote:

Pete,

Thanks for the suggestion of the de-ionized water.

David.

On 29 Jun 2009, at 10:42, Peter Boynton wrote:

David

If it has been through the washing machine already you've nothing to
lose. I suggest you purchase some deionised water and flush the phone
out again as the soap residues may cause a short circuit. Take the SIM
card out first.

Then you need to dry it out very slowly (say on top of a radiator) and
hope for the best.

Not sure of any magicians myself - I never did like David Blane

Pete

The outcome has been that my guest took his phone to: Call Box Global  
Ltd of Small Heath who recovered the 80+ telephone numbers on the phone.

We then reassembled the phone after careful drying and it is now  
working again!

I have pointed my Canadian guest in the direction of MarkSpace and  
suggested syncing

Thanks to those who replied.

David.

On 29 Jun 2009, at 10:42, Peter Boynton wrote:

If it has been through the washing machine already you've nothing to
lose. I suggest you purchase some deionised water and flush the phone
out again as the soap residues may cause a short circuit. Take the SIM
card out first.

Then you need to dry it out very slowly (say on top of a radiator) and
hope for the best.

If his nNokia has Bluetooth, then it can Sync to a Mac with the appropriate
Nokia plug-in:

<http://europe.nokia.com/get-support-and-software/download-software/ma...
ort>

I prefer using Nokia's own free software for transferring Music, Pics etc to
the phone over my iPhone/iTunes combination. I find the idea of using iTunes
to sync contacts daft. I have been using iSync for years, and it's such an
elegant solution. But I suppose that as Apple has crippled the iPhone's
Bluetooth, I'll just have to put up with it.

Pete

On 30/06/2009 08:55, "David Lambourn" <David.Lambo...@blueyonder.co.uk>
wrote:

If you're looking for a music syncing tool, you may want to look at Double
Twist. Its designed to do iTunes style ipod management for all manner of
other phones, i.e. Blackberry, Android, Nokia, etc.
Dom