Entity Steve Goldstein spoke thus: > CRASH...TINKLE...BURN ... Ahem...might I now expound upon the advantages of PARTITIONING? It's a breeze to reinstall your OS on a partition. You simply erase the existing OS and start over. If you want your userfolder as another partition it's a wee bit more work, but you can reinstall without losing any personal stuff. As of 10.3 I have a policy of keeping a working backup of my OS on the inside partition, it's such an insurance policy and I can boot into the backup to repair permissions. -- Gnarlie http://www.Gnarlodious.com/Entities/Computer/Cube/Cube.html