The first thing is to get the machine booted with anything that has Disk First Aid and Drive Setup on it (Disk Tools floppy, or a bootable CD). To boot from the CD, put the CD in and hold down the C on the keyboard then turn on the computer and keep holding C until it starts to boot. (make sure caps lock isn't on as it only works with a lowercase C) Then run Drive Setup and see if it sees the hard drive, if not, the drive itself is toast, get a new drive. If it does see it, update the driver (its in the menus). After updating the driver, reboot using your boot disk NOT the hard drive. After the reboot, run Disk First Aid and attempt a Repair on the hard drive. After that, the drive still may or may not be bootable. If it still is not bootable, try reinstalling the OS, that should restore it to bootable state. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>