It seems like I always have to repair my disk on osx. I will notice things slowing down so I fire up disk utility and choose "verify disk" then it tells me i need to boot off the osx cd and run disk utility from there in order to repair my disk so I do that. After it's repaired it runs fine and if I verify disk again everything is okay. But after a month or so I have to do the same thing, boot off the osx disk and repair disk again. How can I fix this problem. Should I format the drive and re-install osx?
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I would try formatting and re-installing OS X. If that doesn't fix it, your disk is probably going bad, and will need to be replaced.
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The drive is new but it is a cheap drive. It's a 500gb 5400rpm hitachi. I was thinking about replacing it with a hybrid drive anyways. Would restoring from a time machine backup work after I reformat?
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Time Machine works fine as does the program SuperDuper.
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Getting the Hitachi is what you did wrong. From what I have been told, Hitachi hard drives are prone to failure. Their desktop models are sometimes referred to as DeathStar drives (name play on DeskStar).
Always repairing disk
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by J12, Dec 2, 2010.