Randy B. Singer wrote: > At this point in time, every modern Macintosh (i.e. made within the > last few years) should be able to boot from any FireWire hard drive > currently on the market, no matter what chipset it has in it, and no > matter what drive mechanism it uses, if that drive is properly set up > for your Macintosh. In that case it sounds like I'm going to have to try moving my Utility drive to my fully working case. As part of this whole 10.4 upgrade I'm working on I'll be rebuilding the Utility disk anyway. The case is probably about 4 years old, the Mac in question 3 1/2. Zane