• USB Mass Storage not recognized (or mounted)
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Alright, so I was doing some work the other day and was copying the latest RC of the Linux Kernel to my USB drive, and suddently I decided that maybe it wasn't such a good idea to do this on USB 1.1 speed, and cancelled the transfer. When It was done/undone, I got an error from Windows XP (the OS on the computer I used at school has XP installed with Novell ZENworks 7 ontop) that said the filesystem was RAW. I was a bit disturbed about this, and in my attempt to fix this quickly, I decided to just safely remove the drive and do a reboot to see if that would fix it. It didn't. The USB wasn't recognized as "Kingston 2.0 Mass Storage Device" but as "GENERIC USB Mass Storage USB Device" and I couldn't mount it. At first, I thought it wasn't auto-mounted, but it didn't show up in the list of drives when I checked with the Drive Manager thing. After I got home, I tried booting up in Linux, seeing if I could format the drive, or do something to it that would eventually fix it. So I boot up, and put the USB in; nothing happens. When I check Ubuntu's Storage Device Manager thing ( I can't recall the actual name of it) it says "GENERIC USB Mass Storage USB Device" again, and it's not possible to mount! But It gave me the option to format, so I went ahead and pressed the button. I was met with an ERROR, and I couldn't format. Since I can't assing a drive letter to the device, nor can I mount it in Linux, how do I even go about fixing this?
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