Thanks for the help. No matter what I do I still get 'Permission Denied' when trying to access this USB drive so I have decided that it is not worth the grief of trying anything else. All of this command line stuff is to 1970's for me. Fortunately the files on the drive are not that important and I will out of frustration be re-formatting the drive to and sticking to an OS that I am familiar with and consign all others to the trash. Once again thanks for trying to help me but my sanity is more important.