Hi, I downloaded and burned the System rescue disc (Gentoo + X), I have a 2.5 inch Sata drive hooked up with a usb to the computer. I plugged the drive in after booting from the system Rescue disk, should I pug everything in and then boot up? I ask because I do not have the drive with me at this time. I am trying to recover some data from the drive for my boss, and for the sake of security, I refrained from bringing it home. Dmesg says this (plugged in after booting): [629.870083] usb 1-1.4: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd [640.064013] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=174c, idProduct=5106 [640.064019] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1 [640.064022] usb 1-1.4: Product : AS2105 [640.064024] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: ASMedia [640.063857] usb 1-1.4: can' set config#1, error -110 Given that I will have to mount this drive (Win XP) what values do I extract from dmesg to do that? Gentoo has some empty directories set up in /mnt so I could use one of those, or should I be mounting into /media? mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/usb (what) /mnt/drive ???? or would booting the system up with drive powered up and connected produce a better outcome? Many thanks Andrew Greig