First of all, could I suggest that you start using vowels? That would make things a lot easier to read.
Second, I think you have two choices. 1) Get Diskwarrior and let it do its job on that partition or 2) move all necessary stuff off that partition and format it. Then move everything back. Cheers, Kim P.S.: How can you manage so many partitions? I have 3 on a 10GB and that seems somewhat overdone. On 04/01/03 23:53, "Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is weird. I have an iMac running 9.1, 20Gb hd with 6 partitions. The > main startup partition is 4Gb and has iTunes, and a few other aps on it > besides Sys9.1 folder. My kid was using iTunes .She had been weeding out > music she didn't want. I looked at the desktop and noticed most of the > junk I had there was gone. I could not figure out what happened. I > restarted and it started looking for a valid system fldr on other > partions, found one and started up. When I looked at the main startup > partition my system flder was gone! I freaked. Later when using Sherlock > to find Virex it said I had a Virex Control Panel on that original > partion in the system fldr that I can no longer find. Searched for other > things and Sherlock tells me there is a system fldr there but I can't see > it. I dbl clicked on the System flder on the Sherlock window and presto! > It opened showing me all the contents. I was able to copy them to another > disk. What is up with this? I ran Disk Doctor and it said that partition > has a problem that can't be fixed. Please help! Barry -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
