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Hi buddylind,


a few questions,

1. does the external drive boot with the computer or do you plug it in after booting?

2. is it a hard drive or a thumb(flash) drive?

3. what file system is it formated to (ext3, fat32, ntfs etc)

4. open the drive, right click in the open window, choose properties and
look at the permissions tab. who is the owner, is it root??


Cheers,

Deadguy

This can often be solved with chown on the folder, but some file systems have issues with Linux right management (FAT32). This can easily be solved by adding the disk to /etc/fstab.