Hi Underscore

Fair point about the topic - I've changed it as you suggested.

In answer to your question, I get two icons appearing on the desktop when I insert the USB device. Hard Disk Partition [sdf1] and Hard Disk Partition [sdb1], both are described as Desktop Config Files with a size of 463b, both are of type device and neither is writeable. I don't know which is the actual stick - I assume the second as f appears to relate to the drive designation under Windows.. I have no idea what the other icon represents.