Cannot mount anything

Hello, everybody!
I just installed Bactrack 4 on a USB drive. Had a little problem with GRUB, which I accidentaly installed on one of the hard drives so I couldn't start my PC without the USB. Eventually fixed it with super grub disk.

But now I have a different problem. Everything works completely fine when I boot up from the DVD I burned, but when I boot from the USB, I have completely no devices mounted. In /mnt/ I have only /usb/ which is empty. I have to 250gb SATA disks, each with 2 partitions and I naturally have the USB disk plugged in I booted from, with two partitions too. But none of them are mounted.
I tried mounting them manually in the usual way -
cd /mnt/
mkdir /mnt/sda1
mount /mnt/sda1 /dev/sda1

I get the error that this device is not a block device.
I tried to substitute sda1 with sda, sda1, sdb, sdb1, sdb2, sdc, sdc1, sdc2 - all with no success.
After hours of trying to find anything similar in this and other fourms, I found nothing.
I will apreciate any suggestions.

1. show us the result of

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fdisk -l

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Here it is.

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# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250058268160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd7fed7fe

  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System
/dev/sda1  *          1        1539    12361986    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            1540      30401  231834015    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250058268160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc5b1bd2e

  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System
/dev/sdb1              65        1371    10498446  83  Linux
/dev/sdb2            1372      30401  233183475    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb3              1          64      514048+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdc: 16.1 GB, 16173236224 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1966 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000ebc72

  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System
/dev/sdc1  *          1        919    7380843+  c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdc2            920        1966    8410027+  5  Extended
/dev/sdc5            920        1915    8000338+  83  Linux
/dev/sdc6            1916        1966      409626  82  Linux swap / Solaris

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This command is not correct: mount /mnt/sda1 /dev/sda1

Mount syntax is the following:

mount <device> <mount point>

you are trying to do: mount <mount point> <device>

You can read `man mount` for more information.

Thanks, that worked :)

So I presume Backtrack 4 does not automount any disks to avoid changing them for forensic purposes, right?

mount NTFS try:

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mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

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i have been having similar problems:
http://forums.remote-exploit.org/new...backtrack.html
iof someone could take a look that would be much appreciated
cheers
yoma