Unable to open usb drive in ubuntu
Koh Choon Lin
2choonlin at gmail.com
Sat Sep 17 08:12:53 UTC 2011
Hi
>> It's definitely not mounting, could you try sudo fdisk -l in the terminal
>> and paste the result here.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
Did you plug in the USB drive and then perform the command, since you
mention that you are able to see the drive icon and even its files but
is unable to read its content.
One way is to boot into Windows and copy its data out to your HDD and
then boot into Ubuntu to access the data.
By the way, what is the brand of the USB drive?
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Regards
Koh Choon Lin
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