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FAT32 Partition on External Hard Drive won't mount
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<blockquote data-quote="eb94" data-source="post: 1409303" data-attributes="member: 254642"><p>Hello forum users.</p><p></p><p>About 1 week ago, I bought a brand new 500GB Western Digital external hard drive. I bought it as I intended to use it as a backup and file transfer drive.</p><p></p><p>I made 2 partitions, one for backing up my Macbook's (2008, 2GB RAM) contents, and a FAT32 partition for transfers and file storage. </p><p></p><p>Now, am I right for making a FAT32 partition so that I can transfer files between Mac and Windows computers?</p><p></p><p>I gave my external to my friend to put music on it (he has windows, so he put music on the FAT32 partition). When I got it back today and had a look, my backup partition was fine. But my FAT32 partition was not mounting. Disk Utility recognizes that it exists (but with a different name, "disk1s3"), but no matter how much I try, it will not mount.</p><p>By the way, the FAT32 partition is 140GB, and has about 120GB of music on it. I heard somewhere that Mac OS won't mount a FAT32 drive that is above 128GB. Is that true, or do I have a different problem?</p><p>First of all, has the files my friend put on been lost?</p><p>Secondly, how do I get this drive back to my desktop, and if I can will the files be lost?</p><p>Thirdly, how do these things happen?</p><p></p><p>Please help me.</p><p></p><p>Regards,</p><p>eb94</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eb94, post: 1409303, member: 254642"] Hello forum users. About 1 week ago, I bought a brand new 500GB Western Digital external hard drive. I bought it as I intended to use it as a backup and file transfer drive. I made 2 partitions, one for backing up my Macbook's (2008, 2GB RAM) contents, and a FAT32 partition for transfers and file storage. Now, am I right for making a FAT32 partition so that I can transfer files between Mac and Windows computers? I gave my external to my friend to put music on it (he has windows, so he put music on the FAT32 partition). When I got it back today and had a look, my backup partition was fine. But my FAT32 partition was not mounting. Disk Utility recognizes that it exists (but with a different name, "disk1s3"), but no matter how much I try, it will not mount. By the way, the FAT32 partition is 140GB, and has about 120GB of music on it. I heard somewhere that Mac OS won't mount a FAT32 drive that is above 128GB. Is that true, or do I have a different problem? First of all, has the files my friend put on been lost? Secondly, how do I get this drive back to my desktop, and if I can will the files be lost? Thirdly, how do these things happen? Please help me. Regards, eb94 [/QUOTE]
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