That worked like a charm. Now up and running with the 7200 drive and what a difference over the original 5400! Seems like a new machine. Thanks for the help. By the way, am using SilverKeeper (LaCie) for regular daily back-up. Nice to find something to partly replace 9's Copy Agent. Mike >Since Unix uses many invisible files and hard file links you can't >just copy an OS installation like you used to be able to with OS 9. >You can do a fresh install to the new drive, create a user and copy >your user library and documents into it, then run the permissions >repair from Disk Utility. That should preserve most of your settings >and a fresh install is reported to improve speed over an upgraded >installation. >Mel