On Nov 21, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Brian Durant wrote: > OK, the latest on this issue is that I have changed my /etc/fstab to > the following and now mounting with 'sudo mount -a' seems to work: > > /dev/sdb3 /mnt/osx hfsplus exec,auto,users,rw 0 0 > /dev/sdc12 /mnt/osx2 hfsplus exec,auto,users,rw 0 0 > > I still can't copy files from /dev/sda or /dev/sdd1 to /mnt/osx2 I > think for some reason /mnt/osx2 is still "read-only". I'm down to guesses at this point. It seems like it should work, and it would be a clever way to get to the old files if it did, but I think you might be better off doing something more cumbersome but more conventional - dedicate a new drive to the system to replace the suspect one, set up a new OS X system, and then recover your files off the old suspect drive under OS X. SR