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I have successfully mounted a Toshiba 500GB usb with a ntfs file system.
I used the command: mount -t ntfs /dev/sdc1 /media then ran photorec

I then found the device in the media directory and it works saving the files.

I have since tried to do the same using a 64GB usb stick which has the fat32 ...

I have typed mount
which gives
udefs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw, realtime,size=8192k,nr_inodes=451961,mode=755)
/dev/sdb1 on /image type iso9660 (ro,realtime)
/dev/loop0 on /.ro type squashfs (ro,realtime)
/dev/sdb3 on / .rw type ext4 (rw,noatime,nodiratime, nobarrier, commit=30,min_batch_time ...

I am not sure I answered your post about the mount command correctly.

I'am not sure of the mount command my device is /dev/sdc what should the correct mount command be?

I did mount -t partlabel=LIVE which it accepts but still I cannot find it in the directory
I tried mount -t /dev/sdc / but it ...

There is no mount command. There is dev media and mnt in the directory listing. (media mnt gives nothing) dev gives disk which gives by-label which lists the usb's none of which is accepted they return to the / directory.

Thanks for your help.

I have the usb in the list when I first run photorec as Disk /dev/sdc usb flash drive named LIVE. Does this mean the device is mounted?

I select for the recovered files dev/disk/by-label/LIVE but when I enter this the directory / reappears
where am I going wrong?

The manual says, File system from ...

how do you read what is in fstab?

thanks for your help

I have made a USB with ALT Linux Rescue on. I am using photorec to recover files. I am having problems mounting a USB external for the recovered files.
All it seems to allow is recovery to the original disc. In the photorec manual it says: File system from external disk may be available in a /media ...