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Plug in your usb stick with no other usb devices plugged in if possible and list the output from the lsusb command please, it may give a hint as to what is needed to mount your disk.
p.s. what distro are you using?
p.p.s the output of the command df may also be of use
lsusb-->
kim@Kimmie:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 041e:4106 Creative Technology, Ltd Nomad MuVo MP3 Player
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
What do you mean by you cant reach it? Can you copy files from the disk but not to? or can you only list the contents of the disk? If it is the latter you may have some kind of write protection switch on the disk itself (my usb disk has one)
I've never used Kubuntu (i think its one of those cd based distros, right?) and so cannot help on its specifics im afraid. What i would do is use the commandline, i.e.
np, does it let you copy files from the commandline? if so then its prolly just something needs reconfigured to make -->storage media, point to /media/usbdisk
hopefully you can find some kubuntu guru to help you out with that.
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