Tony Corbett wrote: > i tried this: > > corbett at corbett-desktop:~$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda /media/HD_manual It should be something like /dev/sda1 instead of /dev/sda because /dev/sda is the entire disk, not a partition on the disk. You can check which partitions are on the disk with "sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda". Nils