Connecting external FAT32 drive in USB enclosure

I've got a PC whose mobo finally bit the big one, and a couple of hard drives now just hanging out. I bought an Acomdata Samba USB Enclosure Kit for one of them (Western Digital 250GB EIDE), and attached it to my Macbook 13". Disk Utility recognizes the physical drive ("250GB WDC WD25 00JB-00REA0 Media"), but the partition that it shows ("disk1s1") will not mount. No indication of why in the message that comes up, nor in the Console logs.
I have tried switching the jumpers on the WD before putting it into the enclosure, giving it various status in the master/slave combos. None of them worked.
Any insight is much appreciated!

First, it wasn't a FAT32 disk, it was a Windows_LFS... but wow, I can't believe this actually worked. Here's what I did.
1. Booted up WinXP Pro on the MacBook via Parallels.
2. Enabled the USB device in the Parallels Device menu.
3. Let WinXP find the disk and install it.
4. In the Disk Manager in WinXP, I went to assign it a drive letter. It showed up as a "Foreign disk", so I right-clicked and told it to import it. It did so, and assigned it a drive letter.
5. It then was a drive in My Computer, so I right-clicked it and chose "Sharing."
6. I shared the drive on the network, and it's now available in the OS X Finder as an available volume on the networked (virtual) machine.

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