I have at 667 TiBook that has 20 gig delegated to Panther and 10 gig to OS 9.2. from a 30 gig HD. I was loading some software and had a kernel panic ... upon rebooting, my OS 9 icon/HD is not showing at all. Any suggestions on what I have to do to go back in and reclaim my OS 9 partition. Feel free to reply directly, I'll post a summary. Bryan Forbes bforbes at forbesonline.org