On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 02:02 PM, Raoul Armfield wrote: > If CP tried to re-install the OS, wouldn't that mean that he booted > from > the CD? So if the installer did not see the drive, why would Disk > Utility see it? because the installer expects a GOOD volume... the volume is damaged... the installer doesn;t like that so there fore it refuses to allow install on a questionable volume... Disk Utility WILL see it because Disk Utility is designed to repair some disk problems... and also DU can see a drive that needs formatting... ...that's it's job ya'know. =) __ http://etyrnal.no-ip.com .__ ____ _/ |_ ___.__. _______ ____ _____ | | _/ __ \ \ __\ < | | \_ __ \ / \ \__ \ | | \ ___/ | | \___ | | | \/ | | \ / __ \_ | |__ \___ > |__| / ____| |__| |___| / (____ / |____/ \/ \/ \/ \/