The mac does not put up an alert, but it should show on your desktop, go in to 
the finder preferences and see what is configured to show on the desktop, I 
think there's an option for external drives, make sure that is checked.
On Jun 7, 2011, at 9:05 PM, Christine Grassman wrote:

> Hi, everyone, I'm really confused right now.  I placed a new drive into the 
> USB port and expected some sort of dialog box or alert telling me it was 
> available; I want to copy music files onto it.  Nothing, and I can't figure 
> out how to locate it, the way I used to on a PC using "my computer".  What 
> must I do? (I did try removing it, and I got the alert that it was not 
> removed safely, but it doesn't seem to notice when I insert it.)
> Christine
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