You should mount your partition as root. At a shell, do su - then do mkdir /d to make a directory where you can mount your debian drive. then do mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /d then you should see your data under /d Hope this helps. Regards, Willem On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Glenn at home wrote: > As the subject line suggests, I got in, but I still cannot seem to access my > drive with Debian on it. > I do > su > and I tried su root > and I tried su root /dev/hda1 > and every time I try to access the hard drive, I get the message: > access denied. > Anyone know how I can get past this? > Thanks > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.