Earlier today, I described the problem that I was having with the flashing folder periodically appearing at startup. Well, guess what -- the harddisk has crashed and burned (many of you nailed it). I was able to get a OS X startup disk into the system. When brought up the disk utility, I found that the system harddisk located in the enclosure could not be located by disk utility. Now that I know that the harddisk is toast, my next question -- any recommendations (and specifications) for a larger replacement harddisk. Steven A. Melnyk Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management Michigan State University melnyk at msu.edu