>Right. im getting a new hard drive on saturday. its going to be an 80gb >Hitachi 7200RPM drive. its going into a G3 iMac. i was told that >anything over 8gb would have to be partitioned. Nope you can Just use that hard drive as one 80 GB volume. what you are referring to is when 10.0 came out apple had said that IF you partion your drive you must install OS 10.0 on the first 6GB of the drive. -- From Aranzazu This message has been scanned for virus detection by the Union City School's email system. Un-cleanable attachments have been deleted and the sender notified. The information contained in this message is confidential and is intended for the addressee only. If you have received this message in error or there are any problems, please notify the sender immediately. The unauthorized use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this message is strictly forbidden.