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pendrive not recognized

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A pendrive (version 2.0 produced by http://www.pendrive.com) of my friend works on Windows machines but not recognized by Ubuntu Dapper --- it does not appear on the desktop nor file manager.

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Ganesh Gunasegaran (ganeshg) said : 		#1

I have had similiar wherein my thumbdrive was detected but was not automounted.

Try this

1. Check if your thumbdrive is auto detected.

ls /dev/sd*

If you find listings like sda/sdb/sdc.., you thumbdrive might be detected. Let us say your thumbdrive is detected as /dev/sda.

2. Mount ur thumbdrive
Log in as root

mkdir /mnt/usbdrive
mount /dev/sda /mnt/usbdrive

If the mount is successful, you can access USB driver in /mnt/usbdrive.

3. If you want the device to be automounted. You have to edit /etc/fstab .

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PDT (venpandita) said : 		#2

Thanks, Ganesh, for your will to help. I've followed your directions, and I found that:

1. My device was detected as "/dev/sda"
2. But when I tried to mount it, it failed saying that it cannot recognize the file system type.
3. So I tried to mount it again giving the file type as "vfat" (for it shows as FAT on Windows)
4. It failed again saying that "/dev/sda is not a valid system device"

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dougwolfe (dougwolfejr) said : 		#3

What do you do if it is not detected?

Can you help with this problem?

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