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Laptop won't mount usb devices

Asked by Patrick M

seems like the week for mount issues here. My son has a compaq presario R3000 laptop. It will not mount usb devices. No pen drives. dongles etc. I poked around with mount manager and saw the mount point set to cdrom0. I used the USB wizard to try and set up a dynamic mount but still no go. Error message below:

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail or so

Output of lsusb:

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I checked synaptic; all the usb and mount related options seem to be installed

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Michael Basse (michael-alpha-unix) said : 		#1

is this working?

sudo mkdir /mnt/usb-stick; sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb-stick

after that is the stick mounted correctly in /mnt/usb-stick?

if not please show the output of "sudo fdisk -l" and "dmesg | tail -n 20" after putting the usb-stick into the pc

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Patrick M (prmillius) said : 		#2

fixed after reinstall of O/S