Before you trash anything try some disk repair. Onyx, Applejack and others with run the maintenance scripts, repair prebinding etc. you can also use the Apple Disk Utility to check and repair the disk Hopefully that will help. BG On Apr 13, 2007, at 6:43 AM, Dan A Currie wrote: > Hello All, > > I have my daughters FrankenMac running and internet connected but > as I was showing her around OS 10.2.8 I found that the "Startup > Disk" in the Sys Prefs is corrupt ... gone, the window pops up but > ther is nothing, nada in it and it takes some time to close it. > > Hence, I am unable to tell it to start up on the CD or in OS 9. > > I know that in old OS 9 you could trash different Sys Prefs and > reboot and a new one would appear but I can not figure out how to > trash the Start up Disk pref or if this will work. > > Help!!??? > > Dan Currie > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984