USB pendrive no more mounted

[samiel60]

Until yesterday I had no problem with a UBS pendrive.
Today it's no more mounted. lsusb tells:

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samiel@darkstar:~$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 005: ID 1b1c:1a03 Corsair 

but there is no way to mount it. In Windows I see it correctly,
so I can exclude a hardware fault.
Which other tests can I make?
thanx
s

[Laurent85]

Plug in the usb key, then post below command output:

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dmesg | tails -15
sudo parted --list --script
sudo blkid

[Lord Boltar]

Plug in your thumb drive then open the file manager to see if it is there to mount it click on your thumb drive or right click it and select mount

[samiel60]

gparted told me that there were some inconsistencies in NTFS file system.
I repaired it with chkdsk /f from windows. now it seems to work.
there is a similar procedure in linux, If I had no windows in my machine at all?

thanx
s

[Laurent85]

I repaired it with chkdsk /f from windows. now it seems to work.
there is a similar procedure in linux, If I had no windows in my machine at all?

For a ntfs filesystem you should only rely on the Windows tools, Linux can only fix a few inconsistencies using ntfsfix.

[BG405]

If you do get rid of Windows altogether, you'll be better off re-formatting your pen-drive(s) to ext2. That should avoid future issues (apart from wear, but this is lessened by using ext2 rather than ext4).

If, or more likely when you do acquire more NTFS-formatted disks after removing Windows, there are bootable live .ISOs with Windows utilities or even a live Windows session, for fixing these issues.

Many years ago, I used a Windows xp 3½" boot disk to fix the boot sector and MBR. This is likely the quickest and easiest method, but how many have floppy drives still in use these days?

[Lord Boltar]

gparted told me that there were some inconsistencies in NTFS file system.
I repaired it with chkdsk /f from windows. now it seems to work.
there is a similar procedure in linux, If I had no windows in my machine at all?

thanx
s

I always use fat32 on my thumb drives do not have any issues that way

[samiel60]

I formatted with windows. now usb pes is working.
Ridiculous, I have windows only for this goal....

[BG405]

Did you try Mint's "USB Stick Formatter"? It should be in your menu.