Please provide dmesg | tail messages after you plugged in the stick.

When would I run this?

Please remove the stick, look whether the /media/[username] directory is empty and report other things here.

Ok, will do. When do I run the dmesg | tail command?

Then plug in the stick, open a terminal and execute dmesg | tail. Please post the output.

ok...doing. After removing the stick it displays the Windows partition as a folder, but not in PCManFM Places. Nautilus sees it a displays it fine. Will now plug in and run the command

Here it is: [ 7028.899741] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 7028.899752] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[ 7028.900614] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 7028.900625] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 7028.903982] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 7028.903992] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 7028.905771]  sdb: sdb1
[ 7028.908379] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 7028.908389] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through

Ok, normally the automounter of the desktop environment should mount the stick.

Does Nautilus show the stick in the places sidebar?

Not unless I'm root/sudo. Same thing with PCManFM

Hm. If you mount it via the sudo mount command all works fine?

yup. Works fine, just I can only see it as root/sudo

you have removed the manually created folder?

yes

have you testet if the stick is mounted if you boot from live cd?

No

Reformatting it didn't do anything either (via root gparted)

you aso can try if dolphin from KDE (they use another subsystem for device management) recognises the stick.

Don't have KDE

maybe the temporary installation is cheaper than the live CD ;)

what should I do?

Should I just try restarting?

hello?

I would test if dolphin sees it... But it is weird. linux recognises the stick (that was from the dmesg output), and normally the desktop should at least indicate it found a stick

have you generated an fstab entry for the stick?

FYI, I'm using LXDE

might of, though I'm not sure

how would I do that?

Install dolphin? or the fstab entry?

lol, both I guess

dolphin: sudo apt-get install dolphin

lol, duh

Well, Windows 7 recognizes it fine

could happen :)

hello?

still interessted in the fstab solution?

yeah, sorry

ok

i will post it as an answer, despite it does not fix the missing automount, ok?

ok.

aha! Dolphin recognizes it/displays it in the Places column when I just run dolphin via dolphin. No sudo/root needed

However, I can't access the device without sudo/root

It just sits there saying `Could not enter folder /media/LEXAR. [stop button] Loading Folder [progress bar bouncing back and forth]

hm..

what file system do you have?

Por que?

The USB drive file system is FAT32 and my Ubuntu is the default. Windows XP Pro is NTFS

you working on the answer for fstab?

cause I do remember seeing it say something about not having an fstab thing-jibber once or twice (or possibly 3 times, I could be wrong (: )

oh dear, I fear my internet is going to drop me soon.

hello?

I'm going to restart as I am suddenly having problems with my sound too. Be backs soon

you have an answer

I had a problem with a USB drive that I couldn't mount or even reformat due to a hastily deleted LVM encrypted volume. The solution in my case was to install three add-ons to Gparted in the Ubuntu Software Center. Search for gparted in the

I had a problem with a USB drive that I couldn't mount or even reformat due to a hastily deleted LVM encrypted volume. The solution in my case was to install three add-ons to Gparted in the Ubuntu Software Center. Search for gparted in the Ubuntu Software Center and scroll down to read the descriptions of the add-ons. The add-ons that you need to install are: (1) dmraid (2) gpart (3) ntfsprogs .