Hi Ronni No, I can't select it, it's greyed out. The partition Map Scheme is GUID Partition Table. I think I'll just give up on it. Thanks for your help Kind regards Peter On 27/08/2013, at 2:45 PM, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can you select it in Disk Utility and click on 'Mount'? > Does it then show on the Desktop? > What format is the Thumb Drive? ... MS-DOS (FAT 32)? > > Cheers, > Ronni > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > On 27/08/2013, at 2:17 PM, Curtis Peter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Ronni >> Thanks for the reply. >> It does show up in Disk Utilities and I can verify the disk (appears to be >> ok) and repair disk (appears to be ok) Nothing else. >> I've tried it in other USB connections and other computers, all the same. >> I've disconnected all devices from the computer/s, same result. >> It is a while since I used it and cannot remember if it was disconnected >> improperly. >> If I could just get the info off it, it would be good. >> I was able to copy the flash drive as a .dmg but when trying to open it I >> get the message The following disk images couldn't be opened "FLASH Drive >> SM_USB20 Media.dmg - no mountable file system >> Kind regards >> Peter >> >> On 27/08/2013, at 12:38 PM, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Peter, >>> >>> Did you put the Thumb Drive in another computer and save data to it since >>> it last worked? >>> Did you properly eject the Thumb Drive? >>> >>> look to see if it show's up in Disk Utilities and the System Profiler / >>> System Report on the USB bus. >>> >>> If you are plugging it into the keyboard (if using a Desktop Mac), try one >>> of the USB ports. >>> >>> There also could be a conflict with other USB devices, try ejecting and >>> disconnect anything connected via USB (other than keyboard) , then restart >>> the Mac and connect only the Thumb drive. >>> >>> If you still don't see it on the desktop it may have been improperly >>> disconnected from the Mac while mounted. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni >>> >>> 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" >>> 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD >>> >>> OS X 10.8.4 Mountain Lion >>> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) >>> >>> On 27/08/2013, at 11:24 AM, Curtis Peter <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all >>>> Is there any trick I can use to get a thumb drive to mount? >>>> It's the thumb drive itself which is faulty, as all other thumb drives I >>>> have mount quite happily. >>>> This thumb drive has a lot of information on it from all over the place, >>>> which I wouldn't want to have to reload on a new one, except directly from >>>> this drive to another. >>>> It goes in, the light flashes, then stays on, but doesn't show on the >>>> desktop or anywhere else. Taking it out does not show the illegally >>>> unmounted message. >>>> Thanks in anticipation. >>>> Kind regards >>>> Peter > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
