On 9/14/05 9:15 PM, Brett Conlon wrote: > Any thoughts on what is causing it? I had something similar once upon a time, when the mount point of my partitioned hard disk was faltering... Is backing up and reformatting an option? If not (or before you endure all that), can you boot into safe mode and successfully open a partition? Or create a new user and open a partition without hanging? peace, Linda