OK, I wound up having to just repartition the whole drive. that has seemed to work ans SL's in there now reinstalling, thank god. Anyway, I don't intend to normally post things like this, as the mods would probably go, and we wanna know this, why? but, I thought just for once you all might get a kick out of my stupidity, as this really is hillarious! So, here's the deal. I was trying to repartition my internal 2 50 gig hard drive, like I said a second ago. Well, earth! to dumb dumb! It's telling me it's a start up disk and cannot be repartitioned. Well, to my horror! it said that right? after! I dumped my partition on the drive. Plus it was saying the partition was only 7 gigs. To say the least, I darn near! hadda heart attack! I won't being cussing isn't allowed on list, repeat what I said, but we'll just say the first letter started with a GD and the last word was it! So, I'm sititng here pannicking really! not wanting to ride to the apple store later tomorrow. I try again to interact with the table in the disks collumn. I! wanted, and still do by the way, to crawl? under the table! and die! You know what it said? Optiark! D, V, D! drive, Mac OSX Install! In other words, I had the dad blamed DVD selected! No frickin wonder! I couldn't partition the thing nor erase it! Have any of you had a senior, duh, I feel shtow'w'wpid, moment like that? ROFLMAO! Ow'w'w, Gawod! That was funny! Chris.