>The really good news is the built in repair utilities really are powerful (translation: worked for me when nothing else would.) The Disc Utility (in your Applications folder>Utilities>FirstAid can do everything from verify to repairing discs (drives), repair files, erase discs, partition a drive. And I must add that Disk Warrior has recently saved one of my 160 GB drives when Disk Utility would recognize it, say it fixed it, but continue to report a problem, all the while not allowing the drive to mount. -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Robert Ameeti mailto:robert at ameeti.net <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>