Patchburn is very nice but, while it can enable 3rd party drives to work with other Apple apps, ie iTunes, etc, I don't think it will make a non-bootable drive bootable. I just kept the original Apple cdrom handy in case it needed temporary plumbing in. John --- Rick Smykla <rsmykla at verizon.net> wrote: > Patchburn is a utility that will solve the booting > problem with many > third-party drives. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com