Right then. thanks! i checked the apple website and it says my machine is affected. as for moving data from one drive to the other. the current drive is a 6gb so i dont have a lot of stuff on it. im just going to put it on a network share, and then copy it back afterwards. all my mail is on my .mac account, my bookmarks are too. only thing that isent is my mp3s, and they can be thrown onto the network. Thanks for the info! Lotas T Smartman, MCP www.lotas-smartman.net www.the-hairy-one.com www.lsn-blog.tk