In my last paragraph I should have explained more fully that I tried to remount the disk by running "mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdisk" after the disk failed to be remounted automatically.
In my last paragraph I should have explained more fully that I tried to remount the disk by running "mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdisk" after the disk failed to be remounted automatically.