Cant run repair disk permissions?!

Well my mac got grey screened again and it seemed like safeboot wasnt working so i ran my disk utilities running my osx cd when i select my hard drive the button for repair disk permissions is grayed out and i cant xlick it all i can do is verify disk permissions. Someone pls help?

Make sure you're selecting the drive icon in that list and not the HD icon itself!

Hope this helps

- Simon

Yeah i clicked on my hard drives name macintosh hd

Could be that it hasn't un-mounted properly, have you tried a reboot?

- Simon

Yup rebooted and still the same. Was think about just erasing everything will that be an easy solution?? Cause i dobt have much on there and just put everthing important on a flashdrive

shoozter said:

Yup rebooted and still the same. Was think about just erasing everything will that be an easy solution?? Cause i dobt have much on there and just put everthing important on a flashdrive

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Yes that would be a easy solution. You should try it if you have all of your important files backed up.

Good luck!

- Kyle

Just one more question guys. Do i juat erase from the disk utilities and can i just do the simple erase or the 7 or 35 erase?

Boot from the install disc, select language and go into Utilities in the Menu Bar, select Disk Utility > Erase and run that and a simple erase should suffice if not much has been on the disk, back to the Installer and proceed from there.