Ubuntu – Can’t mount a USB pen drive

It's 4 GB USB pen drive. Formatted NTFS. USB2. Works fine on windows on the same computer (and others). It has the contents of a windows xp installation disc.

…I just cannot mount it. When I connect it nothing happens but I believe Ubuntu can see it.

Here are some command outputs

last few lines from dmesg

[  164.703187] ieee80211 phy0: rt2800usb_txdone: Warning - Got TX status for an empty queue 2, dropping
[  554.953670] usb 1-4: USB disconnect, device number 2
[  565.092026] usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
[  565.227144] usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0951, idProduct=1641
[  565.227150] usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  565.227154] usb 1-4: Product: DataTraveler C10
[  565.227157] usb 1-4: Manufacturer: Kingston
[  565.227160] usb 1-4: SerialNumber: 0019B9087CD7A9C1164B005C
[  565.227564] usb-storage 1-4:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[  565.228288] scsi4 : usb-storage 1-4:1.0
[  566.228802] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Kingston DataTraveler C10 8.20 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[  566.229160] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[  566.229950] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 7825408 512-byte logical blocks: (4.00 GB/3.73 GiB)
[  566.231158] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[  566.231164] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[  566.231904] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[  566.231910] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[  566.237756] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[  566.237762] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[  567.282038]  sdb: unknown partition table
[  567.287030] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[  567.287036] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[  567.287040] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

the part concerned with the device from sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sdb: 4006 MB, 4006608896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 487 cylinders, total 7825408 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0066cd1f

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   ?          63     7825407     3912672+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

sudo blkid doesn't show the device

Tried to mount it with those commands:

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/somefolder/someotherfolder but it gives

mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist

and;

sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /media/somefolder/someotherfolder

ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/sdb1': No such file or directory

ntfs-3g 2013.1.13AR.1 external FUSE 29 - Third Generation NTFS Driver
    Configuration type 7, XATTRS are on, POSIX ACLS are on

Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Yura Pakhuchiy
Copyright (C) 2006-2009 Szabolcs Szakacsits
Copyright (C) 2007-2012 Jean-Pierre Andre
Copyright (C) 2009 Erik Larsson

Usage:    ntfs-3g [-o option[,...]] <device|image_file> <mount_point>

Options:  ro (read-only mount), windows_names, uid=, gid=,
          umask=, fmask=, dmask=, streams_interface=.
          Please see the details in the manual (type: man ntfs-3g).

Example: ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

News, support and information:  http://tuxera.com

sudo ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/somefolder/someotherfolder gives exactly the same output as above.

pmount /dev/sdb1 kingston gives;

Error: device /dev/sdb1 does not exist

please help

edit! "Disks" sees the device!! (the Kingston one) … but what next?

edit: output of sudo mount -t ntfs -o loop=/dev/loop3 /dev/sdb /mnt

NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/loop3': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/loop3' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?