Hi Kevin, By now you will have found out that a simple reboot makes these items become invisible again - as they should be. This happens immediately after any image restoration or cloning I've done. Choosing the new partition to boot off and restarting fixes it all up. I'm unsure about your size difference though. I hadn't noticed it myself... will check next time. Speaking with Don last night he pointed out that the Restore feature in Disk Utility doesn't follow the asr ruling as strictly as NetRestore does. I'll have to revisit that again. Cheers, Coj Kevin Willis <res19rmg at verizon.net> I used the restore tab in Disk Utility to make a copy of my start up drive. However, I noticed that the sizes differ. My original is 24.07 GB, the copy is 23.76 GB. I also noticed that the copy has some extra folders in it. They are /dev /etc /tmp /var. What are these? Thanks, Kevin