If you back up a bootable partition by making a disk image with Disk Utility, and then restore it, it will still be bootable. You might double check to see if you have to select that somewhere as I haven't done it in awhile. I think it was with Carbon Copy Cloner that you had to select that option... Rick > Does this make a bootable copy? >> >> You can use Panther's Disk Utility to back up your partitions to >> another drive by making disk images of them (make compressed versions >> as you're low on space). Then reformat your drive the way you want >> using the Disk Utility in the Panther install cd (you must boot up >> from the cd - it's in one of the drop down menus). You can then >> restore the backup images to your new partitions. Expand (not restore) >> the disk image of "B", select it's contents, and add it to your new >> "A" partition. >>