so when you say you mounted an old FAT32 drive does that mean that the simpletech bonzai 512 card was NTFS? if so, that was your problem, no linux distro can reliably write to NTFS they can write w/ captive NTFS, but it is a dangerous procedure, nad is quite correct, these forums contain many references to the problems / dangers involved with NTFS, reading it is easy, writing to it is where the problems crop up. That is something I had to learn early on is to use the search tool here, the forums are well established and alot of the time the question has already been answered