Yes, that was the current fstab. The bottom line is commented out with a # as you told me to do. If it isn't commented out, then I do not have the opportunity to mount the drive using the right-click method.

I am trying to mount to /home/nick/Music/music as it was suggested that I should not mount to /media. You showed me how to create that mount point.

As regards the sdb or sdb1 I have tried both of them.

I understand that a drive needs to be connected to be mounted automatically (at startup), but previously I was able to connect a USB drive after start up, and have it recognised.

Hoorayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Marko Lerota (of Audiophile Linux) suggested a different line for the fstab which is

and the drive mounted from boot up.

He then told me how to get ownership:

I then had the issue of the two USB drives containing the music not being recognised, but a third drive made with a Linux system has been recognized, and the long task of copying music across has started.

Thanks to everybody who tried to help. As I've said, I am not a Linux user, so don't know why the code from Marko worked but it does. After the music is copied across, I will make a backup of the OS using Redo so that I hopefully won't go through all this again.

I will later make a last post summarising all that I did in case anybody else needs to do the same job.

This is how I added a second hard drive to my Linux computer (it uses Linux Mint but modified to become Audiophile Linux but these instructions should work for most Linux systems)

NOTE the bits that you need to change are shown in green

Assuming that the drive is physically installed in your computer:

Open a text editor eg Gedit

Then open the terminal, and type

In the output of that command I recognized the drive that I was installing from its size as sdb Hopefully you can too but it shouldn't be too difficult to identify it.

Copy that UUID number, and paste it into Gedit

Returning to the terminal type:

Then:

You will be asked for your password, and then Gedit should open up. (If you get an error message, close the terminal, then open it up again and go back two steps)

It is a good idea to save the existing fstab file under a different name eg fstab-bak in case you mess up and need to start again.

Leave a blank line underneath the existing code and enter:

BUT change the UUID number to the one that you previously pasted into the text editor.

ALSO change nick for the username that you use on that computer.

ALSO if you drive is listed as something other than sdb1, change that too.

Check what you have added to fdtab and make sure that it is correct, particularly the UUID number.

Save the fstab file, and Quit GEDIT.

That has now told the operating system to boot your hard drive up automatically when you start the computer.

But the drive/filesystem needs to boot to a mount point. So create one now as follows:

In the terminal type:

Again - change nick for your username.

Now to give you ownership of the 'music' directory type:

And again change all instances of nick to your username.

Now close the terminal and text editor, reboot the computer, and when it reboots you should see your drive/filesystem on your desktop ready to be used. If not I hope that the good folk here can help you further than I can.

looks like it is solved now.
Please mark the thread solved.

Will do, and thanks again for your help.

you are welcome. Glad it is solved finally.