I installed both the fuse and ntfs debs, and plugged in my 256mb stick, and got the "Unable to connect, no file system available" message. The stick works fine when FAT32 formatted, but not when NTFS formatted. I've tried unplugging/replugging as was suggested earlier, and when I try to mount the device with "mount.ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/ntfsdisk" I get the a string of errors: $MFTMirr error: Incomplete multi-sector transfer detected in '$MFT' Failed to mount '/dev/sda1;L Input/output error NTFS is either inconsistent, or you have hardware faults, or you have a sofrtRAID/FakeRAID hardware.