It happened to me twice AFAIR... Do you have OS9 and OSX in the same partition? Have you tried the Reset P-RAM trick? It worked for me ('cuda 80Gb with 2 partitions. 40Gb for 9/40Gb for X). Good luck, LM >>> brucarr at rogers.com - 25/01/2005 9:17 PM >>> I've come across a problem starting up classic - It doesn't. I'm running the latest panther 10.3.7 - Cube 500 with 1 gig of ram. The classic startup window just hangs there when it starts up. I tried starting up classic using the system of another backup 10.3.7 drive but it still just hangs there. Any ideas.....