On Sep 6, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Mark Des Cotes wrote: > When I fire up Disk Utility I see my hard drive listed as "74.5 GB > ST380021A" and nested below it is the one partition "Mark's HD". > Does it matter which one I have selected when I Repair Disk > Persissions? You can only repair permissions on a startup volume - if you have partitioned your disk, then it matters. If not, you can select either the disk or the actual formatted partition. Kirk Author of: Take Control of Customizing Microsoft Office http://www.mcelhearn.com/tcoo.html - - - - - - Read my blog: Kirkville -- http://www.mcelhearn.com Musings, Opinion and Miscellanea, on Macs, iPods and more