Good advice from Sandor.... follow it. FYI, CCC got hung up one time on my machine. I rebooted from the backup drive and ran the Disk Utility to repair the primary drive. Rebooted from the Primary Drive and then used Disk Utility to Erase (then repair) the Backup Drive. Ran CCC and it worked perfect. I make it a point to always Erase and Repair the backup drive before running CCC. Seems to work faster too. Dick > try using disk utility to repair permissions on your boot drive (i am > assuming you are trying to clone your boot drive) then try CCC again. > also, make sure no other applications are open when running CCC. > > sandor