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Hello, I just bought a PNY attache flash drive so I could copy my itunes library from my old pc to my new mac, I copied the files onto the Flash drive from my PC and now my iMac does not recognize it at all, it does not show up in the disk utility, so I am not sure if it needs to be formatted. Any ideas what I am doing wrong, I am new to Mac and having all kinds of problems, so be easy on me 🙂
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Normally USB thumb flash drive are FAT32 formatted.
FAT32 file system can be read/write in OS X and also NTFS can be read-only in OS X.
Because you have copied files from your PC to the thumb drive, the drive itself has to be fortmatted either FAT32 or NTFS.
It is formatted in FAT32, I was able to check that on my PC
Then you should be able to see its contents on the Mac too.
Are other USB devices working ok in the same ports? If not maybe you should reset your SMC
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord.
Wait fifteen seconds.
Attach the computer's power cord.
Wait five seconds, then press the power button to turn on the computer.
Check your finder preferences. Mine does show "external disks":
Unless you mean you cannot see the PNY icon on the desktop.
You can enable that selecting Finder menu then Preferences
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