taking a secrren shot

[JunkYard]

I've attached an emelfm screenshot.

Basically in the area I've circled in the screenshot you need to change the text from /home/tc to /mnt and hit enter - you will then be able to see the contents of /mnt

In my example the contents of /mnt in the left hand pane are:

sda1, sda2, sda3 - partitions on my laptop hard disk.
sdb1, sdb2 - partitions on a usb stick.

But I might have something now please see attachment

[Juanito]

Finally - some progress

I'd guess you've rebooted or unplugged and plugged your usb stick and it is now /mnt/sdb1.

Does the mnttool show sdb1 as mounted/green? If not click on it so it becomes green, then double-click on sdb1 in the left hand pane of emelfm, this will show you the contents of the usb stick.

[JunkYard]

Finally - some progress

I'd guess you've rebooted or unplugged and plugged your usb stick and it is now /mnt/sdb1.

Does the mnttool show sdb1 as mounted/green? If not click on it so it becomes green, then double-click on sdb1 in the left hand pane of emelfm, this will show you the contents of the usb stick.

[JunkYard]

and final attachment

Will go out to the garage at some time to find my old back up HDDs
For some strange reason they wont show anything on windows OSs. (maybe some thing to do with the formatting)

[Juanito]

Usually windows cannot read partitions formatted for linux

[JunkYard]

Usually windows cannot read partitions formatted for linux

I think it formats the drive with out your concent