You would think so but it just hangs once repair starts or simply refuses to boot from a disk in the first place - it's a mystery - and it won't repair when I use the computer as a firewire drive and run Disk Utility from that computer. Same deal. Hangs (doen't crash but if I leave it for days it never finishes). So I am hoping that the warning that says "may not repair all errors" means that DW may address something that Disk Utility doesn't. Or I'll just erase the sucker and start over. wayne > > You shouldn't have to wait for DW. Startup with your install OS X CD, > open > Disk Utility, and run the Repair Disk/Permissions options. That should > fix > whatever's ailing it. > > HTH > > ------------------------------ >