Wayne Clodfelter said: >Glad DW helped, but what you describe is not a KP. You were having >startup issues because the boot disk directory was damaged. Directory >repair is all that DW does, but as had been said many times before, >it does it very well, MOST of the time. Actually, Disk Warrior can do quite a bit. Have a look at this review of DW and comparison test of hard drive utilities (these articles are dated, but still very informative): http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=05443 http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-707.html#lnk3 http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07696 Randy B. Singer Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions) Routine OS X Maintenance and Generic Troubleshooting http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html