msdosfs USB mount error (invalid argument)

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I am unable to mount my WD MyPassport Ultra usb drive. Can anyone please assist?

Code: 
sudo mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb/
mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument

Code: 
dmesg
ugen5.2: <Western Digital> at usbus5
umass0: <Western Digital My Passport 0827, class 0/0, rev 2.10/10.12, addr 2> on usbus5
umass0:  SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0xc001
umass0:3:0:-1: Attached to scbus3
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus3 target 0 lun 0
da0: <WD My Passport 0827 1012> Fixed Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI device
da0: Serial Number 575837314138354B46583638
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
da0: 953837MB (1953458176 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 121597C)
da0: quirks=0x2<NO_6_BYTE>
ses0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus3 target 0 lun 1
ses0: <WD SES Device 1012> Fixed Enclosure Services SPC-4 SCSI device
ses0: Serial Number 575837314138354B46583638
ses0: 40.000MB/s transfers
ses0: SCSI-3 ENC Device

Code: 
ls /dev/da*
/dev/da0        /dev/da0s1

Code: 
sudo file -s /dev/da0
/dev/da0: DOS/MBR boot sector MS-MBR XP english at offset 0x12c "Invalid partition table" at offset 0x144 "Error loading operating system" at offset 0x163 "Missing operating system", disk signature 0x7598f981; partition 1 : ID=0x7, start-CHS (0x0,32,33), end-CHS (0x3ff,254,63), startsector 2048, 1953456128 sectors
 
User mounting doesn't come into play, the OP is root through sudo(8).

Can you post the output of gpart show da0?

The disk is likely to be formatted with NTFS, not FAT (which is what msdosfs(5) supports).
 
I only remembered it now because I've been suffling around disks in a windows machine just recently and I was trying to transfer a Windows 10 installation partition by partition using CloneZilla live. It didn't work though and I had to resort to dd(1).

Those IDs are documented in the FreeBSD gpart(8) manual page, not all of what is out there but the NTFS one is there.
 
gpart show da0
=> 63 1953458113 da0 MBR (931G)
63 1985 - free - (993K)
2048 1953456128 1 ntfs (931G)

Then I should use fuse ntfs-3g instead.

SirDice said:
User mounting doesn't come into play, the OP is root through sudo(8).

Can you post the output of gpart show da0?

The disk is likely to be formatted with NTFS, not FAT (which is what msdosfs(5) supports).
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