Would someone tell me the difference of a 'forced reboot' and a 'soft reboot'? Apple tech taught me to use a soft reboot years ago when things went wrong...aren't they different things? Pat On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 12:24 PM, Peter Nacken wrote: >> The absolute LAST thing I would do would be to do a forced reboot >> since >> this will lose data and may damage files or hard drives. >>