Cannot mount drives and partitions--Solved

[gold_finger]

Well, that mount point and fstab entry were certainly a strange occurrence.  My best guess is that it may have had something to do with this:

Perhaps I should have mentioned that my hard drive is fairly new. When my old one died a couple of months ago, I used Macrium Reflect to image the old drive and then moved everything to my new one. But now all of that is gone (on my new drive) since I installed Linux Lite.

Anyway, doesn't really matter now.  Glad it all worked out.