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This Volume Was Found Corrupt And Needs To Be Repaired, How To Fix It?

The new Disk Utility says it will check and repair it if needed, but it gives me this message: The volume XXX was found corrupt and needs to be repaired. File system exit code is 8. Operation successful. How to repair it? There used to be a separate button. (In the details is indicates "Incorrect number of file hard links." ) iMac 27" Late 2012 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

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iBoysoft author Vain Rowe

Vain Rowe

Answered on Wednesday, November 26, 2025

You should boot into macOS Recovery mode and then open Disk Utility to run First Aid to repair the volume since you cannot repair a volume that you are booting from and actively running on.

Mac Recovery Mode is a very useful tool designed to recover your Mac. You can use it to reinstall macOS, perform disk checking and repair with Disk Utility, factory reset your Mac, restore your Mac with Time Machine backup or so.

Just boot your Mac into macOS Recovery mode > Utilities > Disk Utility > First Aid to fix the message saying "This volume was found corrupt and needs to be repaired."

 

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