Well I took the plunge and traded off my desktop PC for a Core Duo mac mini. I successfully upgraded to Leopard and starting to get the hang of it. So far I'm pretty happy I don't have a PC in this house anymore. And I have been to this forum many times to solve something I couldn't figure out how to do. Excellent forum. Especially the switcher's hangout. So to the root of my question. I used Disc Utility to split up my hard drive into a 50GB and 30GB partition. I then clicked on Apply. But the thing is, is that the little bar has been going and it says modifying partition map for about 45 minutes now. That doesn't seem to be doing anything really. Is this typical for a Mac to take this long to repartition the hard drive? Thanks for the help