Rearranging icons

Hello

I am having trouble rearranging icons in my External Hard disk

I pressed arrrange by> name.
Disconnected my drive and when reconnect the view is all haphazard again.

Iv posted a screen shot just incase. (Blurred out the sides for privacy.)

The drive is formatted as Msdos-Fat. Does that make a difference?

Please let me know Asap

thanks and regards

MS DOS!!! And you're connecting it to what? Always provide more info than you think anyone could possibly need...
And, there's no screen shot.

im sorry i forgot to attach the screenshot.

also its ms-dos fat 32. iv attached a screenshot of that also.

pls help

You still haven't described the computer that the external hard drive is attached to.

Macbook pro 13inches running snow leopard 10.6.8

the external hard disk is a western digital hard disk 1tb

Ok, so you're trying to connect an external formatted as MSDOS to a Mac, and you're having trouble. That sounds right to me.

Exactly

So toMacsh,

is there a reason for mac behaving so funnily?

How do you know it's not the MSDOS drive that is to blame?

I don't know the reason whether it's a mac problem or an msdos problem jus need help so kindly help pls

Try ctrl-option click -> the menu should change to keep arranged by - the key word being keep. I've not tried it on a MS DOS partition so toMACsh may still be right - but you want to make sure it says "keep" for what you are trying to do.

Yes, I didn't pick up on that, Ivan. Arrange By and Keep Arranged By are two different animals. Arrange By is a means to temporarily change the "permanent" Keep Arranged By, um, arrangement.