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run dmesg and get the information and post it.

As far as I see, the scsi driver doesn't contains a partition known to Linux.

try /dev/sda1.

dmesg | less:
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: Model: USB DISK 20X Rev: 1.01
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
SCSI device sda: 243712 512-byte hdwr sectors (125 MB)
sda: assuming Write Enabled
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda:
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
(END)

Are the actual device files still present on the system?

ls -l /dev/sda*

Cheers
ZB

this is what i am getting when i apply....
mount -t usbfs /dev/sda1 /usbdrive/
[root@localhost usbdrive]# cd /usbdrive/
[root@localhost usbdrive]# ls -ali
total 4
1294 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Nov 12 21:04 .
2 drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Nov 12 21:04 ..
1297 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 12 21:04 001
1377 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 12 21:04 002
1450 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 12 21:04 003
1295 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 13 07:08 devices
this is not the same directory that I had at all on the previous system nor is rw and I have tried to format it in windows ...reply "cannot complete format.. "

Is there anything in any of the 001, 002 or 003 directories?

I wouldn't have thought it necessary to format it - you could just remove any data you don't want.

Also, if it isn't writable maybe it's reached capacity?

Cheers
ZB

nope! checked windows everything.. this is not the same directory at all and it has no write not even in root.. I can't even creat a another directory in it even if I go through the whole mount bit... also the directory itself mounts even if the disk isn't in there ... I am pretty sure that I accidentally filled up all 125mb by accident post second installation of fedora anyway.. i have a question for you.. though.. if windows was taking up too much room on the computer would that prevent the all the memry being stacked onto the linux..??
moxxx68

The command should be:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /usbdrive
vfat for win partition
xfs/ext3/ext2/reiserfs/etc for linux partition
ufs for unix ones

usbfs is totally another thing that should be mounted under /proc/.