And in target mode from the other Mac you can run Disk Utilities and REPAIR DISK which can fix the directory big time. -- Taylor Barcroft New Media Publisher, Editor, Video Journalist, Podcaster, Futurecaster Santa Cruz CA, Beach of the Silicon Valley URL http://FutureMedia.org RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/FutureMedia iTunes http://tinyurl.com/8ql87 barcroft (gizmo) kungax (Skype) kungag5 (iChat-AIM) On Feb 9, 2006, at 5:39 PM, Linda wrote: > Well shoot. That was recommended on the mac-osx list not three > weeks ago. > > If you are not booting again... it probably IS your hard disk. > > You can test by booting that Mac into Target Disk Mode and > connecting it to > another computer. If the drive refuses to boot as a Target Disk, or > freezes, > then you know the problem is not with the OS (which you are > bypassing), and > you can be pretty sure that it is hardware. > > -Linda