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Disk utility not showing up on 2nd drive!
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Hi!
I am trying to run Disk Utility on my second hard disk, but I cannot make it work. Please give some tips here.
I am rebooting with the OS cd and I am holding 'c' down. But still, when the installer opens and I try to run Disk Utility the "Repair Disk Permissions" does not show up. Why? If you know what I am doing wrong here, please reply soon. I have a Powermac G5 dual, 2.0 ghz, and OS X 10.4.
Take care,
K 
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Join Date: Jan 2000
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Repair Permissions only works on drives that have a valid OS X system installed.
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Ok, I see...
But what do you recommend I do then?
I use my second drive mostly as a scratch disk for my video files, and my mac is pretty much exclusively for editing with final cut.
How should I do maintenance on this second drive? Do I need to?
I'm a photographer and video editor, not a mac expert so I really appreciate advice on this.
Ok, take care,
K 
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If you have only temporary data stored on the drive, the easiest thing to do would be to reformat it every now and then.
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What kind of maintenance are you hoping to do? The OS takes care of your drives. There isn't anything you should need to do. You don't do your own CPU or RAM maintenance either--the OS takes care of managing those. Your hard drive is the same.
Chris
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Hi guys!
I'm very new to mac, so I just want to keep it in tip top shape you know. Nothing in particular, but I've heard stories of people having their disks crash etc and I sure don't want that.
I talked to a friend of mine and he said I might want to run disk warrior instead. But he also told me that disk permissions are most important on the system disk because that drive usually has all the executable applications anyway. So, maybe I shouldn't bother too much with drive 2 maintenance?
Perhaps I was a little bit misinformed to begin with. Or maybe I'm just being paranoid? Still, paranoia pays off sometimes:-)
Take care,
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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Mac OS X does pretty much all necessary routine maintenance automatically. Disk Utility's Repair Disk function can help now and then -- but you'll likely find that it never has anything to fix, because even after crashes, it runs Repair Disk automatically during startup, not to mention that it uses a function called Journaling to prevent most damage to begin with (and it's proven to be highly effective).
If you really want to do a thorough disk directory repair, use DiskWarrior -- but unless you've been having trouble, don't bother.
As for "Repair Permissions": I must emphasize that [b]it is not a maintenance function[/i]. It is a troubleshooting step, and there is absolutely no need or benefit to running it if you have not been having trouble. I only recommend running it before and after installing major software packages, or when the computer's been acting weird.
tooki
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