Hello Bernard and everyone, Hope everyone is AOK.... I have been experimenting with WINE as I had a number of Windows programs that we needed to use. I t worked like a dream I was able to install several programs and everything went very well. At some stage after an update I lost the internal SATA drives and now it even refuses to mount external drives! Network drives are OK and fully accessible. I have tried several ways from the ubuntu forums but so far no luck. I am not sure when it happened as I had installed several programs and several updates before I noticed. Also after the second or third update/upgrades there are two versions of the kernel 2.24.19 and 2.24.16 . It does'nt matter which one I use I still cannot mount the internal or any usb drives... Any help would be appreciated Regards to all Ron -------------------- << Griffith Linux Users Group >> Meets: last Sunday of every month Next Meeting: 28th September 2008, 2-5pm, Where: 2MIA studios,Groongal Ave Griffith, corner of Jubilee Park Website: //www.freelists.org/webpage/griffith-lug