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acutm

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From: Mar del Plata - Argentina

Registered: 2015-05-26

Posts: 27

Problem USB Pen Drive

hi, I have this issue with my 16GB Kingston USB device, when I connect it seems not to be detecting it but when I run fdisk, it takes a while (maybe 2 mins.) and then it shows me the device on /dev/sdf1 . Same thing when I try to see it on Gparted.

Disco /dev/sdf: 15,6 GiB, 16777216000 bytes, 32768000 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tipo de etiqueta de disco: dos
Identificador del disco: 0x0e6c6d71

Disposit.  Inicio Comienzo    Final Sectores Tamaño Id Tipo
/dev/sdf1             2048 32767999 32765952  15,6G  b W95 FAT32

I also cannot mount it. It feezes and nothing happens.
Tried the usb device on Debian and XP and works great.

Last edited by acutm (2015-10-28 19:34:14)

teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 587

Re: Problem USB Pen Drive

You can try ntfsfix to repair a ntfs disk, dosfsck for a FAT disk

How are you trying to mount it The partition, or the whole device?
Examples:

mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 ~/mpoint

ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 ~/mpoint

acutm

Member

From: Mar del Plata - Argentina

Registered: 2015-05-26

Posts: 27

Re: Problem USB Pen Drive

You can try ntfsfix to repair a ntfs disk, dosfsck for a FAT disk

How are you trying to mount it The partition, or the whole device?
Examples:

mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 ~/mpoint

ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 ~/mpoint

sorry for the delay, partition is FAT32 and cannot format to ntfs (strange but i can't).
I just made

 mount /dev/sdf1 /mnt 

and after a while (6, 7 mins) it mounted and seemed to be working.
But it's a strange issue, on debian it works perfect