On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 01:50 PM, Michael Bigley wrote: >> Would someone please help me? (and others who may someday experience >> this very problem) Please. > > Just a WAG, but sounds like the CD device is fried. IIRC, Target Disk > Mode does not do any of the boot tasks like checking hardware, just > powers up the hard drive. What is you thinking on the CD concept? I'm curious. I used an external 12x firewire cd burner (oops - forgot to mention that) so the internal burner was just being read from - not written to. do you still suspect the cdr/dvd drive? - Luke'ntosh --- http://www.mp3.com/lukeetyrnal (music no one likes) etyrnal at ameritech.net