the drive isn't mounted, depending on how the drive is connected you need a command similar to mount /dev/sdb1 /media/mydisk Jacob Mansfield Programmer <div class="gmail_quote">On 14 October 2010 17:37, Ash Wyllie <<a href="mailto:ashw@lr.net">ashw@lr.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi I've booted form my USB stick. I have the hardware, the new disk and the USB to SATA converter. I can see the drive and can modify it using GParted. The original straight from Dell drive is still in the laptop. GParted can see it. But I can't copy it. GParted information gives a warning "Unable to find mount point" "Unable to read the contents of this file system!" I have run backups, but I am not confident that I could restore what I have from the backups. (one backup shows 4.21GB on the backup partition, the other 19.7GB. One backup program gave a whole bunch of permission warnings...). -ash Elect Cthulhu! Vote the greater evil. -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>