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Hi All,
Have a PowerMac G5DC 2.3Ghz and it won't let me mount any NTFS or FAT32 external USB drives. They show up in Disk Utility and System Profiler, but not on the desktop. I have tried the drives on my other G5 and they mount with no problem. Any thoughts?
Jeff
PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
Finder/Preferences/General: check the boxes as required.
Everything is checked and I see my internal hard drives on the desktop. It's the external drives that don't mount and don't show on the desktop.
In Disk Utility, if you highlight one does the Mount icon work to mount them?
I found that I can mount it manually in Disk Utility. When I check it in the Log, it says it succeeded, but the drive doesn't show up anywhere that I can access it.
In Finder's Menu, select Go menu>Go to Folder, and go to "/volumes". (without the quotes)
Volumes is where an alias to your hard drive ("/" at boot) is placed at startup, and where all the "mount points" for auxiliary drives are created for you to access them. This folder is normally hidden from view.
Does it show there?
Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, test if things work OK in Safe Mode.
Then move these files to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
Reboot & test.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.
The drive does not show up in "/volumes." And for some reason, I'm not able to boot into Safe Mode. I'm holding the Shift button after the tone and letting it go when I see the gray screen, but it just boots normally.
External drives won't mount
