Frank, I think you might misunderstand. Since AppleJack runs in the single user mode you can repair the disk without having to boot from different disk. -- Andy Fragen On Sat, Feb 25, 2006, FWPHOTO said: >Andy, > > >> Try AppleJack <http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15667>. It is the >> single best program for running fsck, repair permissions and deleting >> caches around. > >I use Cocktail for regular maintenance. Occasionally I run disk utility & am >faced with the Verify/Repair question, though. > >Thanks for the reply, > >Frank Wiewandt > > > >