Hello Everyone, One of the few remaining computers in my household running Windows went down due to a registry corruption this morning. I've decided to reinstall the OS but want to rescue my data off of the filesystem before I hose it. When I tried to log into the Windows Recovery Console, it wouldn't let me no matter what I did so I grabbed my trusty Ubuntu LiveCD and booted the system. The LiveCD mounted the hard drive as /mnt/hda2 (/mnt/hda1 is my recovery partition) but it mounted it as read only. That's fine as reading is all I actually need to do with this drive. So I plugged in my portable USB drive thinking I'd just copy everything off my old filesystem to the removable drive and I found that I couldn't use it because I wasn't the "owner". I could see the drive, but I couldn't write or delete anything to or from it. How do I get around this? I've tried chgown or whatever the command is but it won't do it. It tells me permission was denied. Help please! Thanks in Advance, Anthony