Comment 47 for bug 107668

IF YOU CAN'T ACCESS YOUR EXTERNAL STORAGE DEVICE BECAUSE OF THIS . . .

You are a dopey. Kidding, happend to me as well just now.

Here's what you do;

- Open a terminal.

- Type "sudo fdisk -l", and try to recognize what the path to your device is.
HINT : If you just inserted it, it should be the last. The path should be something like "/dev/sdc1".

- Create a folder to mount your device on, type "sudo mkdir /media/name_of_new_folder".

- Mount your device by typing "sudo mount /dev/[your_device] /media/[your_folder]".

- Go to your desktop, there's an icon there for your device now. Just right-click it and erase your entry in the "Volume" tab, or fix it, or whatever.

- Go back to the terminal and type "sudo umount /media/[your_folder]".

- Try mounting it regularlly, thourgh Nautilus.

- Should it work, smile =)