Hi,

I was trying to copy items from my usb hard drive today to my pc when it didnt work.
It errored when trying to access the hard drive saying something about an untidy shutdown.

i googled and entered this command

Code:
 mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb2 /media/.hal-mtab-lock -o force
Then only one device showed up, when i clicked on it it said only available with HAL.
I tried service hal restart which did not work

when i try to run partion manager i get this error

Code:
Could not initialise connection to hald.
Normally this means the HAL daemon (hald) is not running or not ready.
No devices show up in the Media now, but the distro is running via the usb hardrive but this shows up as cdrom0