Unable to open usb drive in ubuntu

[Koh Choon Lin]

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