I've had very good luck with Disk Warrior. It's not expensive and their tech support is good if you have a question. I run D.W. several times a year, usually when I finish a big project and am doing clean-ups and back-ups anyway. (It takes a long time to load so don't worry about that.) D.W. will make a graph of the drive you want to examine and if it gives a reading of more than 2% I run the program. I've always been careful to do my backups first, but it's never been a problem. Once it deleted a file that was too corrupt to fix, but I had a backup of that file and once the rest of the drive was cleaned up I could open the back up copy of the corrupt file and restore it. Good luck. Lynne On Dec 15, 2008, at 3:59 AM, Cynthia Roderick wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's > area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > Hi All, > I need some advice on my iMac... it has been slow and when I go to > verify > disk, it says in red the disk needs repair, but the repair disk button > doesn't go active. > > What should I do? I have everything on a backup drive. > > Thanks, > Cynthia Roderick > www.cynthiaroderick.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion > list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members