I was wondering if anyone knew this one. I accidentally removed my flash drive without ejecting the other day, and now when I insert it into any Mac, it comes up
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The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer
When I open disk utility, it looks like the attached. I can't "Repair" it, can't erase it, nothing.
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iMac, iMac G3 No OS Installed Yet
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Processor 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory 8 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC
Software OS X 10.9.5 (13F34)
I wanted to add a new 2TB internal drive and it won't read. Disk Utility shows the new drive but I don't have highlighted options to verify disk, repair disk, verify disk permissions or repair disk permissions. Here's the info: Name : WDC WD2001FASS-00W2B0 Media
Type : Disk
Partition Map Scheme : Unformatted
Disk Identifier : disk4
Media Name : WDC WD2001FASS-00W2B0 Media
Media Type : Generic
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Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), Graphics ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB
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MacBook Pro
when I insert my 'FAT' formatted external hard drive (Samsung M3) into my mac book pro it comes up with the error message that says "the inserted disk is not readable by this computer" and I therefore cannot access the files. The story (potential further details):
1. I had a problem with my mac where it took hours to load each time I turned it on, would only work when power was plugged in etc. so I had to reformat my mac hard drive (when I tried to veriify it said repair, that wouldn't work). So i'm starting with a recently reformatted, clean mac.
2. Before doing this I reformatted my external hard drive (whilst on windows machine) to FAT32 (so I can use on both windows and mac) so that I could back up my files.
3. I then transferred files from mac onto external hard drive and then also put them on a windows machine.
4. After reformatting mac hard drive when I then tried to transfer files back onto the mac I get the 'not readable' error.
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MacBook Pro, iOS 7.1
I just bought a new 1 TB external hard drive for back up purposes. When i connect it via USB to my Snow Leopard macbook pro, it gives me a "this disk not readable by this computer message". I click ignore, and it lets me do whatever i want to the disk - read, write, etc. I have tried repair disk - tells me it's good to go, and tried reformatting several times - thought not zero disk data or the 7 pass bs.
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It doesnt even read.
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But when I plug in my latest flash drive into my Macs, I see the U3 Install Disc icon on my desktop.
What gives? How can U3 still be on it after a reformat? More importantly, how do I get rid of it?
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I have a 32MB flash drive and I though of experimenting with my TimeMachine on my MacBook Pro . I never used time machine before. I deleted everything from my flash drive and opened up time machine. I then selected my flash drive to be used as a back up drive, I was asked to erase flash drive and reformat ... O.o I wasnt to sure about it but I did it anyway [stupid I know, dont bash me] so TimeMachine began to back up onto my flash drive, then I got a notice that said that I cant back up on my flash drive as it only has 31.2 MB where 91MB was needed. So I took it out. Less than a minute later I inserted my flash back into my mac and it was not being detected. I cant find it in my finder or my desktop.. I even looked for it using spotlight and nothing was found. Its brand new and I really hope I could use it again. Somebody please help.
p.s I also tried using another flash drive and it was detected as soon as it was inserted.
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View 6 Replies View RelatedSo my exact problem is that I usually use my Flash between my Mac and other PCs. And I just installed OSX Snow Leopard from my 8GB Kingston Flash. Now I know to use Disk Utility to reformat to MS-DOS (FAT) to be able to to use it between the to OSs again.
So I do that but PCs won't read it and ask me to reformat it again. I'd happily do that cuz I know as long as it's in FAT or FAT32 the two OSs will be able to read and write from each other. But the PC only recognizes 200 mb and when I do reformat it on the PC there are now 2 different Partitions. One being the PC's 200 mb in FAT and the other Mac's almost 8GB MS-DOS.
I've tried a few different things too. I've tried Partitioning the whole thing over again int MS-DOS after having erased everything. Which I see only causes the Flash drive to shrink from 8.01 GB to 7.80GB and still isn't readable by a PC.
Then I tried Erasing it to free space but PCs still don't recognize it and still ask me to reformat the 200mb is sees on the Flash.
i hear its possible to make a install emergency disk using a flash drive, i purchased a HP USB 16GB flashdrive v 165w, [URL]
i formated the drive as a Guid Partition, ignored preferences and all the stuff i could find online to see to it that i did it right but no go,
can anyone tell me if this drive is incompatible or which one i should exchange it for?
i tried cloning my original OSX Leopard DVD and i get errors when from both CCC and Super Duper,
When I plug any of my USB flash drives that work with my PC laptop my iMac doesn't see them or mount them. They don't even show up when I look at disk utility. I have a USB printer and an external USB HDD plugged in and they work.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I am a new MacBookPro user and I really don't know what I am doing . I am having problems with the flash drive. It appears that it is not being recognized.
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