On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 05:31:57PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > The Verbatim belongs to User, and needs to function on his box. But it > cannot be written to from his box, even as root, and returns "access denied" > to most files and directories that I try to copy over. What is the filesystem on the drive? Sounds like NTFS, and it's being mounted using the read-only ntfs driver. Install ntfs-3g and try mounting it with that. -- John