<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Mac OS install disks have most of the utilities you would need. Restart your mac with the disk in the drive and hold down options, you can choose the system install disk. Once it starts dont select install but you can go to the disk utility. If you dont have the install disk. Try applejack <a href="http://applejack.sourceforge.net/">http://applejack.sourceforge.net/</a><div>It is an expanded version of the fsck utility of the unix core. It is a little more technical. Hope it helps. 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If you have received this message in error, or are not the named recipient(s), please immediately notify the sender at (515) 279-8682 and delete this e-mail message from your computer. Thank you.</font></p></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Oct 12, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Ray Bowler wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi,<br><br>Something which you might want to try first would be to go to your <br>utilities folder ( to the Dock) select and run Disk Utilities. Select <br>your HD and then do "Repair permissions". This will take a while but <br>may cure your problem. I am not sure that repairing the HD will help <br>your problem but it might. The directions in the article should work <br>but the initial screen may be different. But the basics are right and <br>it shouldn't do any harm.<br><br><br>On Oct 12, 2009, at Oct 12, 20095:12 PM, AB wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">My HDD seems to need repaired. I'm pretty sure this is due to my <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">font management library, Suitcase fusion conflicting for whatever <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">reason with Adobe suite.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To my understanding if I follow the directions found here.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://macs.suite101.com/article.cfm/when_macs_crash">http://macs.suite101.com/article.cfm/when_macs_crash</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">it won't erase the current or existing applications and files? Am I <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">mistaken? I've only done complete installs and upgrades with Macs. <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Windows I know there's a repair option and performed such on <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">countless occasions.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I know I should back up files before performing maintenance. <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">However, my present budget doesn't allow me to make any unexpected <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">purchases right now and the backup would be to large to manually <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">break down to be backed up on discs as I don't have enough to do so. <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">And the system needing repairs is 10.4.11 which means it does not <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">have the Time Machine.capabilities.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks in advance for your help!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-A.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">DMMUG mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Use this Address to send mail to the list:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:DMMUG@dmmug.org">DMMUG@dmmug.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Use this page to modify subscription options:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/dmmug">http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/dmmug</a><br></blockquote><br>Ray Bowler<br><br>rbowler.home.mchsi.com<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>DMMUG mailing list<br>Use this Address to send mail to the list:<br><a href="mailto:DMMUG@dmmug.org">DMMUG@dmmug.org</a><br>Use this page to modify subscription options:<br>http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/dmmug<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>