rescue disk program with a gui

[darkfena313]

Tim Tebbit wrote:
>> Steve Reilly wrote:
>>   
>> i have a usb drive that wont open. i want to get my files off of there.
>>
>>     
>
> gui won't help you there.
> Mount it from the command line.
>
> $ mkdir /tmp/disk
> $ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/disk
> $ nautilus /tmp/disk
>
> Do what you need.
>
> If /dev/sdb1 is not your usb drive or you don't know what it is...
> Reconnect the device and run
>
> $ dmesg |tail and note the device location. substitute /dev/sdb1
>
>
>   
Tim, here is what happen. i did what you said and the drive opened up 
showing nothing inside. the funny thing about that is the dive indicates 
that  space has been used but no files are shown when nautilus opens the 
drive.