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In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu.

Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button. Alterhatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. For example, if you are already booted into the Lion you originally purchased with your Apple ID or if an instance of the Lion installer is located anywhere on your computer.īoot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. There are situations in which this will not work. You should now see an active Install button to the right of your Lion purchase entry. Hold down the OPTION key and click on the Purchases icon in the toolbar. Note : You can also re-download the Lion installer by opening the App Store application. Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion and click on the Install button.

Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.

Otherwise, click on the Erase tab in the DU main window. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing.

Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list.Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears.

If possible backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive. Since you haven't indicated whether you can log into your existing account, all I would suggest is if you wish you can try reinstalling Lion, log into your old account then create a new account. Either you reinstall Lion from scratch so you can create a new initial admin account or you must have an existing admin account you can log into to create a new account.