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I am 90 % sure the drive is fine :-( - Was copying data from it yesterday.

Lent the drive from a mate to copy data, now it can't be found, plugging in and out no change - AAAHHH he is going to KILL me. Please help :-)

user23063
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  • Plug the drive in and then pastebin the output of sudo fdisk -l and dmesg | tail See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Pastebinit – Panther Dec 28 '11 at 16:24

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Here is the Ubuntu official guide to automounting USB:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB

If you have Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, maybe you can take a look at this guide here:

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/05/fix-usb-devices-automount-not-working.html

You can also try to use Disk Utility, available in the Ubuntu Software Centre:

https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/natty/gnome-disk-utility/

heiko81
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The link first suggested under "Ubuntu official guide to automounting USB" suggests

Disks (the GNOME disk utility) that lists drives, including USB drives. If you click a drive on the list, you can view its details, and can click the triangle-shaped button (Play button) to mount the drive.

This worked first time when a USB memstick suddenly refused to automount under Thunar File Manager. After mounting it pops up in the File Manager.

You'reAGitForNotUsingGit
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G Ricks
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Try this also: This has something to do with the BIOS and floppy drives.

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/05/fix-usb-devices-automount-not-working.html

This worked for me when nothing else did. I tried:

sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
dconf-editor
sudo apt-get install usbmount
pmount

Finally I did modprobe as described in link which worked!

sudo modprobe -r floppy
Eric Carvalho
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