Thanks Mike >From: Michael Holland > >Hi, You make me feel like a >grumpy old fart for suggesting use of the command-line and "mount" >command. e.g. "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/my_dir " This worked I am sheepish too say maybe I need to add this line to my /etc/fstab to get it to recognise from the start >cheers, Mike. Thanks again Cheers Innis