Why can I not get my usb Sandisk to work with Unbuntu?

gnosis1.7 · 08-22-2007, 12:44 PM

I try to mount the sandisk but I get this error every time.
*Unable to mount media there is probably no media in the drive*

can someone help?

ankit4u1 · 08-22-2007, 12:54 PM

Can you be more specific to what exactly did u do and what commands did u use to mount ?

Anways, to be more specific, I would jot down the simple steps to mount your USB.

Do fdisk -l
You will see one partition something like /dev/sda1, which is of USB.

Once you know that,

cd /mnt/
mkdir usb
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
cd usb

That's all !!! Let me know if you face any errors....

Thanks,
Ankit

gnosis1.7 · 08-22-2007, 01:17 PM

I didn't use any commands. I placed my drive in the usb port, clicked on places and selected computer, from computer i selected my usb drive, when i double clicked on my usb drive it came up with that error.

ankit4u1 · 08-22-2007, 01:21 PM

Ok. you used GUI.
Try to do what I jotted in my first post. In case you get errors, copy paste those here...

gnosis1.7 · 08-22-2007, 01:29 PM

when i type fdisk -l it dosen't do anything

gnosis1.7 · 08-22-2007, 01:30 PM

Usage: fdisk [-l] [-b SSZ] [-u] device
E.g.: fdisk /dev/hda (for the first IDE disk)
or: fdisk /dev/sdc (for the third SCSI disk)
or: fdisk /dev/eda (for the first PS/2 ESDI drive)
or: fdisk /dev/rd/c0d0 or: fdisk /dev/ida/c0d0 (for RAID devices)
...

I just typed in fdisk and that is what came up

ankit4u1 · 08-22-2007, 01:39 PM

Did you do "fdisk -l" ? it is small l (l as letter)

gnosis1.7 · 08-22-2007, 02:35 PM

Yes i did fdisk -l

AceofSpades19 · 08-22-2007, 03:30 PM

did you do sudo fdisk -l?

gnosis1.7 · 08-22-2007, 04:00 PM

now it is asking for a password?

ankit4u1 · 08-22-2007, 04:07 PM

ok !!! I think you have not logged on as root...

Do you remember the password you entered while installing the OS ? enter that password..and you should be fine !!!

gnosis1.7 · 08-22-2007, 04:23 PM

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 14219 114214086 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14220 14593 3004155 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 14220 14593 3004123+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

ok Now we are getting somewhere I think

take a look at this and let me know if I am on the right path now

ankit4u1 · 08-22-2007, 04:54 PM

Ok GReat !! good going ...

Tell me, did you do fdisk -l when you had USB plugged in ? If no then plug it in and post the output of fdisk -l

Make sure you copy paste everything you get after fdisk -l

After you plug USB in, you should see another device with usually FAT32 partition type...in /dev