Hi Amedee! This was the result ! If I could mount them all normally and not just for the session using mount in mnt/usb1 etc that'd be great At the very least I'd like to be able to access them all I have one hard drive I can see in gparted of 300 gigs that it says it cannot access I think I have a couple of NTFS drives What is the best course of action? Can you explain also why it mounts 1 drive as 3 gigs? Thx MG Disk /dev/sda: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x7e91a39a Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 19647 157814496 83 Linux /dev/sda2 19648 20023 3020220 5 Extended /dev/sda5 19648 20023 3020188+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disk /dev/sda1: 161.6 GB, 161602043904 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19646 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/sda1 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/sda5: 3092 MB, 3092673024 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 375 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/sda5 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xb51fa8fc Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 19457 156288321 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/sdb1: 160.0 GB, 160039240704 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19456 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x69205244 This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1p1 ? 13578 119522 850995205 72 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdb1p2 ? 45382 79243 271987362 74 Unknown Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdb1p3 ? 10499 10499 0 65 Novell Netware 386 Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdb1p4 167628 167631 25817+ 0 Empty Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition table entries are not in disk order Disk /dev/sdc: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x524a757d Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 1 48641 390706232 b W95 FAT32 Disk /dev/sdc1: 400.0 GB, 400083181568 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48640 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x65772072 This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1p1 ? 120496 225061 839922362 20 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdc1p2 ? 82801 116350 269488144 6b Unknown Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdc1p3 ? 33551 120595 699181456 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3 Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdc1p4 * 86812 86813 10668+ 49 Unknown Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition table entries are not in disk order Disk /dev/sdd: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x227f1d55 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 1 392 3148708+ 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/sdd1: 3224 MB, 3224277504 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 391 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x69205244 This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1p1 ? 13578 119522 850995205 72 Unknown Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(368, 111, 45) logical=(13577, 238, 11) Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(371, 101, 51) logical=(119521, 238, 60) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdd1p2 ? 45382 79243 271987362 74 Unknown Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(67, 115, 32) logical=(45381, 70, 3) Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(299, 114, 44) logical=(79242, 34, 29) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdd1p3 ? 10499 10499 0 65 Novell Netware 386 Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(114, 111, 32) logical=(10498, 56, 41) Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(353, 115, 52) logical=(10498, 56, 40) Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdd1p4 167628 167631 25817+ 0 Empty Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(167627, 190, 52) Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(167630, 245, 26) Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.