I'm going to back everything up and give it a try! Thanks for the great detailed response to my question. I'll keep you posted. abigail On 6/5/04 3:33 AM, "Snow White" <jj4 at sympatico.ca> wrote: > To partition your HD or erase and install the new OSX (whatever > flavour) you boot from your install CD and immediately go up to the > menu and under FILE is the DISK UTILITIES. This is the same program > you find in your APPLICATION/UTILITIES folders in OSX, but in this case > you are running it from the CD, so you are not restricted from working > on your HD like before. You are not booted from the HD so it can fix > problems. TRY THIS FIRST - I did not realize you had not found this > tool yet. > > If you want to partition your HD it is also in this utilities > capability, but remember, when you partition ALL INFORMATION on a HD is > erased and un-recoverable. The advantage to this is it will erase all > previous errors completely and set the HD as it was brand new before it > installs your new OS. This is the ultimate software clean-up and I > highly reccomend it if you cannot solve your problems with Apple Disk > Utility. > > jj > > On Friday, June 4, 2004, at 07:03 PM, Cube List wrote: > >> No Sound and Unexpectedly Quits >> From: Abigail Kelly <abimygatt at yahoo.com> >> Message-ID: <BCE60264.AC5%abimygatt at yahoo.com> >> >> JJ- It sounds like we've experienced the same things with 10.3. I think >> you're right in that I should re-install 10.3. Unfortunately, if that >> doesn't work I don't have 10.2 to go back to, I jumped straight from >> 9.2. >> >> As for partitioning,I'm a bit lacking in knowledge. Could you give me >> an >> explanation of what that is, how I could do that if it would benefit >> my poor >> struggling cube? >> >> I'm also going to follow the emails that just started about upgrading >> because I have done nothing to mine. And recently I've gone down to >> only 6Gb >> of free HD space out of 28.62Gb (that's what get info says?). And I >> only >> have 384Mb RAM, so I should up that too. >> >> Thank you for your time, your comments have been much appreciated! >> >> Abigail >> >> On 6/4/04 12:45 PM, "Snow White" <jj4 at sympatico.ca> wrote: >> >>> Abigail: >>> >>> I found that Panther (10.3) was unstable on my cube and corrupted >>> within 2-3 days. After that all kinds of thing 'unexpectedly quit'. >>> I >>> know it should work without a hitch but I went back to Jaguar (10.2.8) >>> and all those problems are solved. > > > ---------- > Check out the Cube email list FAQ > http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/Cube.html > > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <Cube-off at lists.themacintoshguy.com> > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > <Cube-digest at lists.themacintoshguy.com> > Need help from a real person? Try. <Cube-request at lists.themacintoshguy.com> > > ---------- > $14.99 Unlimited Nationwide Mac Dialup and Mac Web Hosting from your Mac ISP > Serious Mac Internet Solutions From NineWire! http://macinternetaccess.com > > T3Hub | 3 Port USB Hub weighs less than an ounce! > Dr. Bott| <http://www.drbott.com/prod/T3Hub.html> > > Cyberian | Support this list when you buy at Outpost.com! > Outpost | http://www.themacintoshguy.com/outpost.shtml > > ADC Extension | Extend the built in cable of your flat panel by 10 ft. > Dr. Bott | <http://www.drbott.com/prod/ADCExtension.html>