If you live near an Apple Store or a friendly Apple dealer, they will usually help you troubleshoot it there. esp if you sound knowledgeable. Way back on 3/17/03 4:17 PM, someone who goes by "Luke Hinman" <louis.hinman at attbi.com> typed vigorously: > i booted into single user mode. i ran fsck -y, apparently i single user mode > the default is /sbin. it coming up with directory errors. the errors will > not clear after several tries. i am going to try the shift (i thought this > would only work on 9). if that does not work i will try fsck some more? i > have an internal drive with 9 on it. if i was dealing with my old wallstreet > or ti i would swap out the drives. What would be my best options if i can't > find my pack of restore discs? it is only a few weeks old, maybe i could > take it into the apple dealer and they can run first aid? whoa is me! thanks > for the continued help.