Hi Paul It means the hard drive with your operating system on it (Startup Disk) is almost full. It's time for you to clean out and delete some unwanted files and free up some room on the HD. Either that or get yourself a larger hard drive. HTH Mark On 24-Apr-09, at 12:28 PM, Paul Simpson wrote: > My wife got an older MAC from our daughter when she bought a new > one. She has been using it for a few years and recently got the > above mentioned message. I have used IBM PCs with windows all my > life and know very little about MACS. Need some help on how to deal > with this problem. Suspect its related to too many programs > starting when PC is turned on. > > > > She is running a 400mhz Power PC G3 with MAC OS Panther Ver 10.3.9, > 320mb SDRAM, 20gig HD. > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 4033 (20090424) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > _______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x-newbies/attachments/20090424/7daa7dd8/attachment-0001.html