Cheers! I shall go "hunt the app" and experiment, I'm pretty sure the drive itself is OK, (at least scandisk tells me so...) but I could replace it I suppose, it's a 20Gb 2.5 inch drive, but at the current rate of knots, I may a well buy a PowerBook G4 and have done with it. Anyone got any experience of running Poser on a PBG4? Does it work properly? later jb