Won't mount Windows thumb drive
I'm not sure if this is an OS issue or a hardware issue, so I'm posting here first as it seems the logical place to start.
I have some data on a thumb drive sent to me by my son who is overseas (an audio diary). The drive was used on a Windows computer, my computer is an early 2009 Mac Mini. The drive when inserted into a usb slot has a small light that illuminates to tell me it's inserted properly.
The drive fails to appear on the desktop. It is not seen by Disk Utility or any other program including TechTool or Diskwarrior. When I remove it from the USB slot I get an error message saying that it was not put away properly.
Is there any way I can get it to mount on the desktop so I can extract the audio files? I'm assuming this is a Windows v Mac issue, but in the past I would at least get some sort of warning that at the least the disk was unrecognizable. In this case it appears that something sees the drive, but won't show it on the desktop.
I have some data on a thumb drive sent to me by my son who is overseas (an audio diary). The drive was used on a Windows computer, my computer is an early 2009 Mac Mini. The drive when inserted into a usb slot has a small light that illuminates to tell me it's inserted properly.
The drive fails to appear on the desktop. It is not seen by Disk Utility or any other program including TechTool or Diskwarrior. When I remove it from the USB slot I get an error message saying that it was not put away properly.
Is there any way I can get it to mount on the desktop so I can extract the audio files? I'm assuming this is a Windows v Mac issue, but in the past I would at least get some sort of warning that at the least the disk was unrecognizable. In this case it appears that something sees the drive, but won't show it on the desktop.
Mac Mini 2.0, Mac OS X (10.5.6), 4 gigs ram
