Welcome to LQ.
Let's back up a little here. Firstly, may I suggest that you go into Windows and re-format the pendrive from there - as Fat32, and add a couple of files to it.
Then, boot into Linux but do not boot with the pendrive attached - boot with it in your hand, not on the computer. Once it's up and running, plug in the device then open up a terminal (the thing that looks like a dos box) and type the following:
cdrecord -scanbus
Look for a line like this::
Code:
2,0,0 200) 'Generic ' 'Traveling Disk ' '1.11' Removable Disk
If you have something similar, then lets play!
When you insert the pendrive, Linux sees it's a new usb device, and probes for it. It sees that it's a removable 'mass' storage device, and treats it like a removable scsi disk. With this in mind, we can look to see where it is:
If you have no other scsi disks (and I include ata/ide Zip drives in that) then it should come back with /dev/sda. If so, then we have found the device. Just check that it is working ok. For this next bit, you will need to change to root (type
su root, press enter and then enter root's password).
fdisk -l /dev/sda (presuming it was /dev/sda).
It should come back with some information about the partitions on your pendrive. If all is OK, then it should only list 1 partition, /dev/sda1.
If you're still with me, then we'll get on with it.
Mandy 9.1 automagically tries to mount devices for you, and I find it annoying. However, it can be useful. It should have made a directory
/mnt/removable. Check to see if your files are in there (remember you put files on it above). If so, then you should be ready to rock and roll with it - but remember that you should, under KDE, right-click on the icon and unmount the device first, just like you should under Windows.
If there were no files there, then check the file
/etc/fstab and look to see if there is an entry for /mnt/removable. If so, then at the terminal, type
mount /mnt/removable and check again to see if your files are there.
Hopefully you should be up and running now.
Just a quick note, though: there should have been no need to edit usb.config, or whatever. It should work out of the box.
Hope this helps.