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i run Ubuntu 15.04 64 bit on a Lenovo y50 and i'm trying to figure out how come my laptop doesn't mount drives whenever i try to connect one. no error messages appear, just nothing happens. i've tried an sd reader connected to a 256 gb micro sd card, a lexar 64 gb usb drive, and wd 2 tb external hard drive and nothing seems to be recognized by ubuntu please help

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You should first try to check if the storage device is recognized by your system.

Disconnect your device then open a terminal and input ls /dev/ | grep sd and Enter. Now connect the device and input ls /dev/ | grep sd again and Enter. Now you should have two outputs. Compare them to each other.

You should find an extra line (or two) in the second output. You can check more about detecting drives here

Now if it is detecting then mount the disk by using the command

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

where sda1 is the name of the extra drive that appeared. You can find more about mount command here.

P.S:- You can run the command and post it's output here.

lsusb

sudo fdisk -l

dmesg | tail

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