Pen drive not mounted ...."Unable to mount, No media in drive"
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Pen drive not mounted ...."Unable to mount, No media in drive"
hello, I am new to linux. My recently purchased pen drive is not detected in Windows, When i tried it in my Ubuntu 8.04 it say "Unable to Mount location, No media in drive". How could i format my drive, so that it could be detected. Actually i think it was all due to some stupid virus in windows...Thanks!!
First thing you want to do is check if your drive has any readable partitions.
To do this type "#dmesg | tail" after plugging in your drive and see if it shows where your drive is mounted. It will be something like /dev/sda or /dev/sdb.
After that look for the partition by typing #ls /dev/sd*
If your drive was sdb, then the partition will show as /dev/sdb1
If you can see /dev/sdb and no /dev/sdb1 and you are sure sdb was your USB drive, then I'm pretty sure that's a guarantee you have lost your partiton.
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