Disk Utility from Install CD will not mount valid volumes

I'm trying to make an image of my internal disk onto an external USB disk. This disk has a FAT32 partition that is automatically seen and mounted when I am booted into the OS. (It also contains an unformatted partition.)
When I boot from the OS X 10.3 Install CD and run Disk Utility (in order to image the internal disk), the external disk and its partition are correctly detected and can be scanned, polled, and ejected without error, but are not automatically mounted. Clicking the "Mount" button has no effect.
A FAT16 flash drive exhibits the same behavior.
Thanks.

Hello! There's another way to image your disk without starting form another disk. Open disk utility and choose new image. It will bring up the box showing you the options. Choose sparse disk image and then under size choose custom. There set the image size in MB. As an example I chose 7000 mb for a 7 gig image. Now name the file and let it mount the image. Once it's mounted go to the disk utility and click on your drive and then select the restore tab. Once there drag your main disk to the source pane and then drag the mounted disk image to the destination pane and then click on restore. You will now have created a disk image of the drive you need. Tom

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Mon Apr 13 10:19:12 2009
panic(cpu 5 caller 0x001A7BED): Kernel trap at 0x67886373, type 14=page fault, registers:
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0x5564fb18 : 0x67886373 (0xe 0x48 0x10 0x10)
0x5564fbc8 : 0x67875540 (0x0 0x6ecf100 0x6fd8c00 0x1)
0x5564fc08 : 0x5550c139 (0x6fd8c00 0x1 0x0 0x13)
0x5564fc68 : 0x55505940 (0x6fd8c00 0x2507 0x5564fd2c 0x6fd8c00)
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0x5564fce8 : 0x437535 (0x6fd8c00 0x76796b8 0x76796b8 0x0)
0x5564fd48 : 0x18c8aa (0x6fd8c00 0x76796b8 0x0 0x0)
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FileVault is On.
Encryption in progress: Percent completed = 18.80
Gowthams-MBP:~ asgowtham$ fdesetup status
FileVault is On.
Encryption in progress: Percent completed = 18.80
Gowthams-MBP:~ asgowtham$ sudo fdesetup disable
Password:
Enter a password for '/':
..fdes.
FileVault has been disabled.
Gowthams-MBP:~ asgowtham$ fdesetup status
FileVault is Off.

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