Q: My Power Mac G5 will not recognize an external hard drive or a thumb drive. They just don't show up on desktop or under "Dev ... My Power Mac G5 will not recognize an external hard drive or a thumb drive. They just don't show up on desktop or under "Devices." Any suggestions? more
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Jan 24, 2012 2:49 PM in response to Bernardo's dadby Limnos,What about with Disk Utility?
Have you tried restarting your computer?
Are these USB or Firewire?
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Aug 15, 2014 5:39 PM in response to Bernardo's dadby MacSooozl,One day my external drives stopped showing up under "Devices" -- all of them. They showed up in Disk Utility, thank goodness. I worked around it by going into Finder Preferences / General / Show these items on the desktop (checked the box next to "External Disks").
I tried turning computer on and off. No luck.
Figured it out -- In the Finder window, if you roll and hover with the cursor over "Devices," to the right, in grey, the word "Show" will appear. Click on "Show" and those external drives show up again. If you hover with your cursor over "Devices" again, the word "Hide" appears in grey. Click on "Hide" and the drives disappear.
I had accidentally clicked on "Hide." Duh...
