Lisbeth Zachs tapped out this message on 2/9/2003 2:50 PM >I understand this will be a check of the hard disk condition. But why >couldn't he do that check with the Disk Utility application and what >effekt would a slight faulty hard disk have on speed performance? If you are running 10.2.x simply start up with the SHIFT key depressed and you will be in SAFE mode (ugh) and then run Disk First Aid and it is the same as the fsck routine while booted from a CD.