This was a problem with earlier versions of Carbon Copy cloner but i think it is fixed now. I used it last night in fact to clone (ghost in pc terminology) a 160 gig G5 hard disk to a larger one. BTW - does anyone have a firewire external hard disk enclosure for an IDE hard disk? Willing to trade you a very nice new USB 2.0 external SATA hard drive enclosure... best gord -- > files, a problem was mentioned about even the back up failing > sometimes. I came across this note when looking into Carbon Copy > Cloner and thought either this or a similar problem may cause > difficulty when backing up files. --- MUGLO information at <http://www.freewebs.com/muglo> Manage list subscription options at <//www.freelists.org/list/muglo>