Ubuntu can't see usb drive

[glenn opdycke-hansen]

I just had a usb problem on a pc. I found that reflashing bios made the usb
hw functional. There are risks with this, but it can work.
On Jun 7, 2011 7:59 AM, "Douglas Pollard" <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 06/07/2011 12:58 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
>> Douglas Pollard wrote:
>>> On 06/06/2011 08:20 PM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
>>>> douglasdoug at ubuntuDoug:~$ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /mnt
>>>> [sudo] password for douglasdoug:
>>>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc,
>> That should have been
>>
>> sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt
>>
>> because you can only mount partitions, not the entire disk.
>>
>>>> missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>>>> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>>>> dmesg | tail or so
>>>>
>>>> douglasdoug at ubuntuDoug:~$ dmesg | tail or so
>>>> tail: cannot open `or' for reading: No such file or directory
>>>> tail: cannot open `so' for reading: No such file or directory
>>>> douglasdoug at ubuntuDoug:~$
>> That error message is a bit misleading. IMHO it should suggest the
>> command "dmesg | tail" and the "or so" on separate lines. Now please try
>> the mount command above (with sdc1) and then
>>
>> dmesg | tail
>>
>> That should give a hint why it can't mount the partition. But beware, if
>> you changed the USB disks it might be a different device now. Please
>> verify with
>>
>> sudo fdisk -l
>>
>> that /dev/sdc is the 2TB disk.
>>
>>> My wife's netbook with Ubuntu 10.04 for netbooks can't see the drive
>>> in PLACES. The disk utility can see it in both machines. Since
>>> this is a vfat drive do you think windows xp can see it?
>> Yes, XP should see the drive.
>>
>>
>> Nils
>>
> Ok, Thanks Nils, I no longer have a dual boot machine with xp and my xp
> cd is scratched and does not work, I will have to see if any of my
> neighbours can run the drive in windows and copy the files to my other
> usb drives. If that works I can repartition the drive and put the
> material back on it. I have about 500 g of data on the drive so I need
> to recover it even if I have to pay somebody to do it.
>
> Thanks for your input. Doug
>
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