Unable to open usb drive in ubuntu

[Amrit Pal Pathak]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Bruce Pieterse <octoquadza at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri 16 Sep 2011 21:13:32 SAST, Ric Moore wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 10:57 -0400, Amrit Pal Pathak wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Ioannis Vranos
>>> <ioannis.vranos at gmail.com>**wrote:
>>>
>>>  On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Amrit Pal Pathak
>>>> <amritpalpathak1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> My usb being open in windows but in linux (ubuntu),system shows it but
>>>>>
>>>> when
>>>>
>>>>> i click on it to open,it doesn't open.If i directly try to copy its
>>>>>
>>>> contents
>>>>
>>>>> ,it gives the error
>>>>> "There was an error copying the file into /home/amrit/Desktop"
>>>>> "Can't open mountable file"
>>>>> please anybody help to to get rid of it.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I suppose you are talking about a USB external hard disk, formatted in
>>>> NTFS.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Install the packages:
>>>>
>>>> ntfs-3g, ntfsprogs
>>>> Already had installed.
>>>>
>>>
>> Did that work?? Ric
>>
>>
>>
>>
> It's definitely not mounting, could you try sudo fdisk -l in the terminal
> and paste the result here.
>
>> Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
>
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
>
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>
> Disk identifier: 0x4a5e4a5e
>
>
>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>
> /dev/sda1   *           1        1912    15358108+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
>
> /dev/sda2            1913       19457   140929377+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
>
> /dev/sda5            6375       15553    73730286    7  HPFS/NTFS
>
> /dev/sda6           15554       19457    31358848+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>
> /dev/sda7            1913        3824    15356928   83  Linux
>
> /dev/sda8            3825        6374    20481024   83  Linux
>
>
>> Partition table entries are not in disk order
>
>
>

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Thanks

Regards

Amrit Pal

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