I have yet to reinstall a Jaguar installation. Mine and my family's work very well. I had one serious disk problem using 10.1.5 when a I forgot to unmount a key disk. Diskwarrior solved that problem for me. No problems since then. Reinstallation is something converted PC users often suggest, as it the only way to solve PC problems properly. Cheers, Kim On 22/01/03 18:54, "Pat D. Stephens" <patdart at cox-internet.com> wrote: > I'm using my month old iBook just as it came to me without a > partitioned drive, but am warned that it is dangerous to do that since > X has reputedly required a reinstall frequently. Right now, I have > very little on it that I would lose were that to happen, but I am > wondering if I should partition it before using it full time. What's > the lists' experience here on this topic? For what it's worth, I've > installed X versions of PhotoElements2, Office and I believe that's > all...and it's running just fine. > > What say you all? > > Pat