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How to resolve 1 HFS volume needs repair mac issue

Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
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Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
Volume Header needs minor repair
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Macintosh HD
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit

1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair

Most of mac user got this error message when they run “Disk utility” to repair or verify disk. Disk utility is used to check any problem in HD. HFS+ is the file system on Mac hard drive. This is considered as most advanced file system and it is very secure that it couldn’t prone to corruption. But Mac user also get problem with their hard drive like slow performance of system and applications. To repair or for other reason they run Disk Utility and sometimes due to the logical corruption of system it indicates problem in the form of error which is discussed above and Disk Utility won’t work.

HFS volume needs repair Mac error displayed in Powerbook, Mac- Mini, MacBook or any other Mac OS enable system. This is due to the logical corruption in system. Even the most reliable and stable operating system can also affected with the logical corruption and damage hard drive. If your hard drive gets damaged then you will not be able to access this and due to this critical data loss situation occur. The above displayed error by “Disk Utility” is the result of root directory corruption. Disk utility performs one process to verify startup volume at the time when “Live Verification” process is carried on. This issue occurs if accidental system shutdown like issue removes such files and if on-disk size for the truncated open-linked Mac files does not get modified before.


Here are some solution to resolve Mac volume needs repair (HFS volume needs repair) issue and perform Mac disk recovery issue. ---

  1. In Single user mode, try to use fsck command line utility.

  2. User can also boot system from different volume former to repair or verify.

  3. Reboot your system by holding “Shift” button. This will let you in safe mode. In safe mode Mac OS X automatically verifies and repair errors during the boot process. Then after you just reboot again and return to the normal mode. After that run verify again and everything will be fine.

If any one of the methods not works to fix issue of 1 HFS volume needs repair then you should format your system and then reinstall Mac OS X operating system. Formatting hard drive and reinstalling it back can solve most of the problem but one thing which you can take a disadvantage of this process is after formatting and reinstalling Mac OS X you will lose your critical and valuable data.

But you needn’t to worry about this. Third party Mac file recovery software will help you to recover lost or deleted data from Mac OS X. it is compatible with Mac OSX Mac OS X v10.0 "Cheetah", Mac OS X v10.1 "Puma", Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar", Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther", Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger", Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard", Mac OS X v10.6 "Snow Leopard". This do it yourself tool for the recovery of Mac data.