On Oct 27, 2005, at 7:08 PM, Jim Manley wrote: > On Oct 27, 2005, at 7:58 PM, B G wrote: > >> Just a guess but sound like he needs to boot from the OS install >> and try disk repair. > > I agree, but repair permissions as well wouldn't hurt. Well, yes it could. Any writing to a disk with problems like this one is having, not associated with fixing its problems, is almost certainly only going to make matters worse. Phil