>What is the easiest way to make a mountable disk image of my whole hard drive? > Carbon Copy Cloner should do what you want. I used to use it for backups, but it really isn't suited to that task. However, it does make very nice, bootable copies of a drive without problems. For backups I'm using Retrospect right now, which works okay but seems to occasionally forget it is supposed to be backing up every night. Not sure why. I use that and a once in while snapshot with CCC as a belt and suspender approach. -Bob --