thanks. it is a 700 ibook and i have booted it into 9 (not classic). but i have not partitioned it and put 9 on it's own yet, it is tied in with x... i guess i will get the disk warrior (looks like i will need it if i am going to keep messing around). thanks... by the way, i tried fsck about 8 or 9 times and it still came up with the same 2 errors... should i keep trying it?