Disk drive question

I formatted my drive with a 10-gig root drive, and a 30-gig data partition. I've run the "sudo oem-config-prepare" command, and everything seemed fine. However, when I tried to access HDA6 (Data Drive), I'm being denied. It's reporting that I'm not the owner, even though I'm the only user on the system.

Any quick pointers how to fix this, or what mistake I made in setup, so that I can reinstall properly?

Thanks!

 

How do you try to access HDA6? Is it mounted? Why did you run "sudo oem-config-prepare"? I've never heard of that utility. What distro are you running? How are your drives and partitions configured?

 

Same here. That's why I haven't been able to respond to the question.

 

The oem config is the command system builders run on machines they've built.

It allows them to install all the neccesary hardware drivers, then lets the user configure the root password and users on next boot.

I too am puzzled as to why it was used in this instance.

 

I'm running Ubuntu 6.06. The "sudo oem-config-prepare" command comes from the window that pops up once the install is completed.

The drive is mounted. The problem is that I am unable to write to my 'data' drive. The computer refuses to allow me to create a new folder, or copy data from a USB drive to my hard drive. As far as I can determine, it does not consider me an owner, only a user. I've tried reinstalling the OS several different ways, including the option that ignores usernames and passwords.

Any suggestions? Everything else works great. I just can't write to a hard drive partition.