Thanks, you just saved me a lot of time. Now, if only getting permission to do everything else in this life were so easy. Brian On Friday, April 11, 2003, at 06:50 PM, Brian Olesky wrote: > >> Can you do this right from the hard drive? I thought you had to reboot >> from >> the original CD, and run Disk Utility off that. > > No need to reboot to repair permissions, something you can verify by > trying. To use the Disk First Aid, to repair the drive, you have to > reboot from the CD or another drive to fix the system drive. Two > different actions. > > --- > > jackrodgers at earthlink.net > http://www.jackrodgers.com >