Hi SuSE folks, Just received my SuSE 8.2 distro. Planning on an upgrade. Want to do a new install because I want to change partition sizes and loacations, Running a dual boot system with two hard drives, hda is Windoze and hdb is Linux. Want to create a separate "home" partition for future upagrades on hdb. Am trying to copy my "home" partition to the windoze "F" drive on hda so I can reinstall my stuff after I configure the hdb drive. Tried two ways. Both unsuccessful. Both as root. First graphically, dragging from /home to /windows/F. (fat 32) Copies ALL of the directotries but NONE of the files. Seems to stop dead in it's tracks because a file cannot be copied. Second, command line: ex: cp -p /home/bob /windows/F get a message cp: omitting directory "/home/bob" or if I cd higher into "home" and I do a cp -p /bob /windows/F, I get this response: cp: cannot stat '/bob' no such file or directory. I know it is some simple stupid thing that I am doing wrong. Can somebody please get me on the right track? Bob S.