Hi All: I recently did a clean install of Mandrake 8. After the install I attempted to run Harddrake to check hardware settings. I went to a black screen and I had to reset the system. Now my cdrom's and floppy are locked in root and the cdrom's in user are locked. I have a DVD/CDROM and a CD-RW. I have not been able to restore use. Does any one have the solution or advice. Here are the currunt fstab and mtab's. Current fstab: /dev/hda3 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 Hr,8¼5˜»5P<AX Current mtab: /dev/hda3 / reiserfs rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount rw,fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0 Thank you for your help. Ralph -- It said uses Windows 98 or better so I installed Linux-Mandrake 8 Proud user of Linux-Mandrake 8 Powerpack Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7