> As a reminder before you bring it in to the Apple store you might > want to consider backing up your important files. More likely than > not the service folks won' t mess with the hard drive, but I have > seen an occasion or two where they have (yes even for a simple > repair), reinitialized the drive. > > Anyway it is good policy to back-up regularly anyway. I did so, earlier this evening. Invested in a 500gb LaCie, though I do miss the Firewire 800 of my previous Powerbook in this 1st rev MacBook Pro. ATB, Colin.