Dear Richard and Jack, Between your answers, I have things working as they should, and as I hoped they would. Thanks so very much. I appreciate all the 'talent' on this list. Pat On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 07:24 AM, Jack Rodgers wrote: > > On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 03:42 AM, Richard McKay wrote: > >>> Tell me where to find out how to update an external drive? It's on >>> 9.1 >>> and I want it on Classic.... > > Assuming that you are using that drive to store files and not as a > boot disk, you don't have to do anything. OS X will recognize the > drive as is. OS X and OS 9 are both installed on your internal drive. > Classic is not an operating system, it is an application in X that > lets you start OS 9 and run OS 9 applications while running OS X. > Once you've moved all of your applications to X via upgrades or new > purchases, you won't need OS 9 anymore. >