ubuntu 10.4- USB won't mount

[murpjf88]

I can't mount my usb drive since upgrading from 8.04 to 10.04. I have tried

sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs

Which was installed, then

sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb1

The message I got was this

Failed to determine whether /dev/sdb1 is mounted: No such file or directory.
Mounting volume... Error opening partition device: No such file or directory.
Failed to startup volume: No such file or directory.
FAILED
Attempting to correct errors... Error opening partition device: No such file or directory.
FAILED
Failed to startup volume: No such file or directory.
Volume is corrupt. You should run chkdsk.

Sometimes I get this message when I first put the drive in.

DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.Failed: An operation is already pending

About a minute later, I receive this one.

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 13: ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error
Failed to read $AttrDef, unexpected length (-1 != 2560).
Failed to mount '/dev/sdc1': Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation
for more details.

Not sure what any of this means, but there is nothing wrong with the drives. I have 4 external hard drives and I receive the same message from all of them. On the other hand, sometimes it doesn't even recognize the hard drive at all. Any help would be appreciated.

[Manko10]

Can't you just run mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/mountpoint ?

[murpjf88]

Can't you just run mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/mountpoint ?

I get this message when I do.

mount point /mnt/mountpoint does not exist

[Manko10]

Of course this does not exist since it only was an example. You have to replace /mnt/mountpoint with that directory you want to use as mountpoint.

[murpjf88]

Of course this does not exist since it only was an example. You have to replace /mnt/mountpoint with that directory you want to use as mountpoint.

I'm just a novice. I have no idea how I would go about doing that.

[Manko10]

Then please first read this: How to mount partitions and filesystems in Linux

[murpjf88]

Then please first read this:

If I did it correctly. this was the message I got.


I entered

sudo mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/usb

I received

mount point /mnt/usb does not exist

[Manko10]

Again, you can't use these paths directly. They're all just examples. Here /dev/fd0 is the path to a floppy device file but your device is /dev/sdb1 as you've aready figured out. The mountpoint path also has to exist therefore you have to create such a directly first.

[MikeTbob]

If I did it correctly. this was the message I got.


I entered



I received

You need to create a mount point first, name it anything you like:

sudo mkdir /mnt/USB

Now, try to mount it.

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/USB

This is all assuming that /dev/sdb1 is a valid device. You can look at the output of

sudo fdisk -l

To see all partitions on the system.

[murpjf88]

When I typed sudo mkdir /mnt/USB in terminal, I received this message:

mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/USB': File exists

When I entered sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/USB

I received this

mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda1 is already mounted on /mnt/USB

Yet, It doesn't show up on my computer anywhere. Did I do it right?