Sounds like a permissions problem or a locked volume/folder problem. Make sure your volume and relevant directories are not locked. Repair permissions on the restored drive and then try starting Classic. HTH. On May 19, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Feldave at aol.com wrote: > > I Just put a new hard drive in my powerbook. > I did a backup to a external firewire wire hard drive first, using > Dantz > Retrospect. > After i installed the new drive in the Pb, I did a restore from the > external > hard drive. > All worked well EXCEPT, whenever Classic tries to startup I get a error > message saying: > "There is a problem with updating the Classic specific files. Classic > unable > to update its files in "SystemFolder" on Hard drive." > > Help.... any ideas on how to fix this > > Regards, Wayne Clodfelter wayne at troutnc.com