cannot mount usb

[hayden78]

Hello people.

I am having trouble mounting a usb. It all started when I , due to lack of patience, went into properties of the usb, and changed the file system to FAT32, now my system says it cannot mount it. I have been told to fdisk it, but , uh, how do you do this if the usb isn't eve detected?

Actually, wait, I CAN see the info for it if I do the sudo lshw -businfo command in terminal.



This is what it tells me, about the usb:


usb@1:1 scsi8 storage
scsi@8:0.0.0 /dev/sdd disk 2038MB SCSI Disk
scsi@8:0.0.0,2 /dev/sdd2 volume 1937MiB Extended partition


it's driving me nuts, how this is able to tell me info on it, but I cannot mount it. I also read somewhere that I may have to do something with kernels??? I have no idea how to do this, every guide I find assumes I know enough. But... alas.. I am a noob.


Ha. People are probably avoiding my threads, because my problems always seem to be unworkable. Don't get me wrong, I love to learn on my own, which is the main reason I switched from windows.

Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers. =)

[bobescalin2005]

more precisely, what error are you getting?

If you run

fdisk -l

can you see the usb device? If you see you can use the fdisk tool to format the device or you can use gparted it`s more friendly.

Cheers!