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    No USB drive visible - Leopard 10.5

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by SsuRReaLL, May 4, 2008.

  1. SsuRReaLL

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    Hi, I can't see any USB drive in Leopard on the desktop nor in finder although they all show up fine in system profiler. (tested Sandisk, OCZ and Samsung drives all with the same problem)
    Any ideas anyone?
    Thanks.
     
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    Have you got external disks checked in Finder>Preferences>Sidebar?
    Does Disk Utility show the USB drive?
     
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    In Finder external disks checked and Disk Utility does not show the USB drive(s)
     
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    Does anything else work with that USB port? Perhaps the port is damaged, or it isn't supplying power correctly. Have you tried restarting your Mac?
     
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    Hi, yes and yes, I tried all 3 of them and other devices work properly (radio transmitter and microscope) thanks for your effort sofar.
     
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    I just found that it is accessible with vmware Fusion so it must be os x related.
     
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    I got it. I tried to format it with my slackware machine and found out that two of my sticks where (software) protected and the 3rd one is broken (faulty descriptors).
    Thanks for the effort anyway. One thing is a shame though, the osx disk 'utility' could have warned me somehow instead of that it showed no disk @ all.
     
    SsuRReaLL, May 5, 2008
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