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PaulD



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Re: USB devices not recognized unless booted up
      09/03/06 10:30 AM
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Hi
Does the Mount menu option in Disk Utility succeed in mounting it?
With an HFS+ formatted drive the solution would probably be achieved by repairing the drive's directory with DiskWarrior.

At bootup/close-down OS X does a drive-maintenance pass on all drives, which probably effects a temporary repair and gets the drive mounted.

Whilst using FAT32 for simple file transfer is fine (where a backup/re-initialise can be done at the first sign of a problem), for long-term project use its advisable to use HFS+ drives on a Mac - for exactly the problem you have discovered (or worse, with some sequencer software).

Use MacDrive or MacOpener to read the Mac-formatted drive on a Windows PC.
Cheers

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