External drives and card reader not showing up

[Bosconian]

On my laptop if I plug a memory card into the built in card reader it does not show up anywhere in Ubuntu. The same for my external drive which I believe is FAT32.

Any solutions?

[Bosconian]

Anyone? I desperately need to get files off the external drive. I am not dual booting so have no other way.

The memory card shows up on the occassional reboot but not on most reboots.

[Bosconian]

OK, no help here then.

Don't worry, I've just reformatted and gone back to XP. EVERYTHING works again.