Suddenly unable to mount SD card

Something is broken...

The fastest way of getting to your data is to mount the card manually.

First identify the device name of the card. Do the following in a terminal window:

sudo fdisk -l

The SD card will probably be the last item, you should see something like this:

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Disk /dev/sdb: 8006 MB, 8006926336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 973 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0007a9e3

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 973 7815591 83 Linux

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Where /dev/sdb1 is the device name of the card. You should change this to whatever is relevant for the card in your system. Now you can mount it on the general purpose mount point that Linux provides:

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

If this is successful then you will be able to access the contents of the card at the mount point /mnt

Note that if you try to mount the card at another location the mount point must already exist otherwise you will get the same error message you got when you tried to automount it (mount point does not exist).

Chris

It's a new problem, not even a new SD card. Always worked before and all of a sudden this happened.
I'm relatively new on Ubuntu so I'm having a hard time understanding your explanation. Could you please provide a step by step solution for fixing whatever it is that happened?

Solved it. I had to type in the command:
"sudo mkdir /media"
Apparently it was missing.

Well that will certainly do it. Never delete /media even though there may be nothing in it.

chris

The funny thing is that I didn't. It's really strange.
Thanks for your help :)