I am using mepis 12, a debian distro, on my ThinkPad T60 and can't
mount my thumb drive.
It is 4GIG fat32 and 90% filled with important files.
Below is all the info I have on this drive /dev/sdb1:
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 4012 MB, 4012900352 bytes
120 heads, 55 sectors/track, 1187 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 6600 * 512 = 3379200 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 1188 3918832 b W95 FAT32
drive is recognized.
Try to mount and get:
[root@sda11 jozien]# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
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
[root@sda11 jozien]# dmesg | tail
[ 254.251751] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] 7837696 512-byte logical blocks:
(4.01 GB/3.73 GiB)
[ 254.253126] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 254.253134] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 254.253139] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 254.262277] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 254.269632] sdb: sdb1
[ 254.271754] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 254.271758] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 369.068710] FAT: invalid media value (0x00)
[ 369.068714] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb1.
[root@sda11 jozien]#
I tried the drive in windows XP and get error:
"not formated, format now"
Please help, got a lot of important info on /dev/sdb1
jozien