Marshall, I may have to look at the option key and wonder if it keeps wrapping or can you go from the beginning to the end of the list of drives in my case two of them? I was hoping that there might be a key such as holding the x when bootingg which allows a person boot form the external drive. I'll give the option key a try thanks. Do I just hold it while booting and then get a list of drives that I can arrow through or do I use option and arrows while the machine is in the boot sequence. ----- Original Message ----- From: Marshall F. Scott To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 8:47 PM Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: booting from the internal drive John, Are you talking about the option key? I checked Help and there doesn't seem to be a specific key for booting a specific drive. HTH Marshall On Mar 16, 2007, at 11:04 AM, John W. Hess wrote: Good afternoon. I have a bootable firewire drive that I use and realize that holding x while booting will allow me to boot form it. How do i boot from the internal drive without unplugging the firewire drive. Basicly I need a to force boot from the internal like the x that forces booting from the firewire drive. thanks. Marshall F. scott University of Utah - CVRTI 95 South 2000 East Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Phone: (801) 587-9523 Fax: (801) 581-3128 E-Mail: scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Skype: scott9576a