How to mount fat32 usb flash drive on 10.6.8?
Hello there,
I've read many posts about this problem but they don't work for me.
I've a Kingstone flash drive 16GB that I use mainly to record videos from a Digital terrestrial tuner box or to watch vieos from internet on my videoprojector.
It used to work fine, then I re formatted it on the DTV box and recorded a couple of programs with the tuner and they show up correctly, but once connected to my iMac mid2011 usb port or MBPro I'm asked to initialize the drive or ignore, eject.
- It doesn't show up in DiskUtility.
- It does show up in System Profiler:
DT R500:
Capacity: 15.99 GB (15,988,686,848 bytes)
Removable Media: Yes
Detachable Drive: Yes
BSD Name: disk1
Product ID: 0x1654
Vendor ID: 0x0951 (Kingston Technology Company)
Version: 1.00
Serial Number:
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Kingston
Location ID: 0xfd130000 / 6
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 300
Partition Map Type: MBR (Master Boot Record)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Volumes:
Capacity: 15.99 GB (15,988,654,080 bytes)
Writable: Yes
BSD Name: disk1s1
- It does show up with mount command in Terminal:
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *16.0 GB disk1
1: Windows_FAT_32 16.0 GB disk1s1
- Tried to make a dir and then mount but with no success:
sh-3.2# mount -t msdos /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/Kingstone/
mount_msdos: /dev/disk1s1 on /Volumes/Kingstone: Invalid argument
I just need to copy the recorded files and then format again the flash drive.
Any suggestion?
Thank you in advance!
Piero
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 21.5" Mid 2011 8GB ram