Tom wrote: > DD only re-arranges partitions if used in automatic mode, not in manual > mode. I don't think that is true. I tried DD in manual mode. deleting partitions and creating new partitions, and DD re-arranged my new partitions in a bizarre way. In my experience Disk Druid is a terrible application. I can't imagine why "they" think it is better than fdisk, which just does what you ask it to do. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland