On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Robert Nichols<rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net> wrote: > Ron Blizzard wrote: > 1 >> Jul 1 03:54:26 localhost hald[2450]: forcibly attempting to lazy >> unmount /dev/sda1 as enclosing drive was disc > > That indicates that you unplugged the drive without first unmounting > it, which is very likely to cause exactly the problem you are seeing. My main flash drive had issues also. So I've reformatted it and rebuilt Puppy Linux on it, and I'm going to do some more testing -- though I will definitely unmount the flash drive before taking it out in the future. I'll report back -- one way or the other. Thanks for the help. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3