HI
I'm using Ubuntu 7.10. It doesn't detect my USB flash drive. Suggestions on how to remedy this

Thanks

what do you mean by doesn't detect?, does it not show up on the desktop?, type sudo fdisk -l in a terminal when the usb drive is plugged in, and post it on here

Here is the output of the command

Disk /dev/sda: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2d852d84

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3589 28828611 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 3590 4852 10145047+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 4853 4998 1172745 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcff2cff2

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 9729 78148161 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Disk /dev/sdc: 300.0 GB, 300090728448 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36483 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa29dee88

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 36483 293049666 7 HPFS/NTFS
dan@dan:~$

is it a flash drive, or an externel harddisk?, are you sure you had the flashdrive plugged in when you ran that command?

I guess this is the one:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 9729 78148161 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)


you need to mount it:
http://www.linuxconfig.org/Howto_mou...drive_in_Linux

It is a flash drive, 1GB, and it was plugged in. The drive works in Windows

ah, didn't see that one, I really need to look closer sometimes

That drive is a second hdd, 80 GB. formatted it as fat32 so as to write to it from linux. I'm duual booting Win XP.