Unable to mount USB harddrive in OSX

External Since: Mar 15, 2006 Posts: 1

I have a handy little external USB hard drive, which is formatted
FAT32, this is usable in Win2000, Linux (Mandrake2005) and OS9 - but I
can't get OS X to mount it. I've tried all the usual options in Disk
Utility, but no joy. I obviously want to keep it as FAT32, so I can
swap files easily.
Any thoughts anyone?

External Since: May 28, 2005 Posts: 515

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:03:23 -0500, wrote
(in article ):

> I have a handy little external USB hard drive, which is formatted
> FAT32, this is usable in Win2000, Linux (Mandrake2005) and OS9 - but I
> can't get OS X to mount it. I've tried all the usual options in Disk
> Utility, but no joy. I obviously want to keep it as FAT32, so I can
> swap files easily.
> Any thoughts anyone?
>

FAT16 and FAT32 devices should mount automatically. Are you attempting to
mount the drive when attached to an unpowered hub, such as the keyboard? I've
found that OS X will sometimes object, while OS 9 will not... but the drive
might not like being hooked to something that doesn't hand it enough power.

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