Mini won't mount disk on the desktop

I have two disks, a cd-r and a dvd-r. Both were burned
on a windows pc, but contain files that are in formats that I
can use on my Mac.
The problem is, neither one of the disks will show up on the desktop.
It makes all sorts of noise, reading the disk when I insert it, but then just gets quiet, and no image on the desktop.
If I go to disk utility, the disk is there, but I know of no way to open it from disk utility. Is there a way to do this?
I have also heard of utilities you can download that supposedly will mount the disk on the desktop. Can someone please help?
Thanks!

Hi! Thanks so much for trying to help. ^_^
Yes, I have cd's, dvd's and ipods checked.
I haven't had this happen with any other disks that I own.
I hadn't tried 'mount' from disk utility, but gave it a try.
When I went to Disk Utility, I could highlight the disk, but I can't click on
mount, as it is not highlighted, even after I click on the disk.
These files should be playable, I just can't make the disk show up.
Would there be any other way to get these disks to show up?

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G drive mini won't mount via firewire 800. usb ok

It hasnt been too long i bought myself a gdrive mini to benefit from the firewire 800 port. It seems that once my macbook gets warm the drive won't mount. It mounts just fine via usb. I've been to the genius bar twice and it worked both times, thats when i noticed it only happens when its warm. I was convinced its a software issue, but i dont know what to think anymore.
Has anyone encounter this issue? Any ideas of whats causing this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated

WAIT WAIT EVERYONE....READ THIS....VERY SIMPLE FIX!
My G mini 750GB drive stopped mounting.....I tried a million methods to get the G mini drive to mount and searched a ton of forums but never found this VERY EASY FIX. Try powering down your computer (imac in my case), then UNPLUG the power supply from the back of the computer....VERY IMPORTANT TO UNPLUG COMPUTER FROM ELECTRIC SOURCE. Nothing else worked for me.
Wait a minute, then plug back in and re-boot....MAGIC - freakin G mini showed up on desk top!
Good Lord why is this simple fix not all over the G mini site?????? It ought to be on the front of the box when you buy this thing! Seems no one at G mini sites talk about this and people are sending drives all over for repair!
Hope this helps!

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Hello all,
A little back story:
I used a 160gb G-Drive Mini with my 15 Al Powerbook G4 (w/OSX 10.4.11) extensively for a couple years with a firewire 400 cable. One day the drive's firewire port crapped out, and since the machine doesnt have the power to run the drive on USB, I figured out that hooking up both USB and firewire cables worked for mounting the drive. (I assume the firewire port was powering the drive and USB was working for data transfer) Time went on, got used to using the drive like this, got fed up, one day decided to send it in for repair, got my drive back and it still wouldnt mount when using just a firewire cable, sent the drive back again and they sent me a brand new one which i just got today.
Drive still wont mount with just the firewire 400. The drive powers up just fine. I can hear it spin when plugged in, but never mounts. It's also not present in disk utility or system profiler. Tried different cables.
Is there anything I can do?
Thanks.

Hi, roland, and welcome to AppleDiscussions. Sounds to me like insufficient power from the FireWire port alone. That's a rare problem with FireWire drives and Powerbooks, though it's much more the rule than the exception with USB drives and Powerbooks. If you choose to keep using this particular brand and model of drive, you'll probably have to use both the USB and FireWire ports to get enough power to it. It apparently requires considerably more power than most bus-powered FireWire drives do, and/or your Powerbook is putting out considerably less than most other Powerbooks.

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When I boot under OS 9.1, my iPod won't mount, why? What extension do I need to install?

"When I boot under OS 9.1, my iPod won't mount, why?"
Because the system requirements for the iPod mini are 10.2.8 or later.

CDs won't mount or appear on desktop....says run "First Aid"

I have an iMac running 10.5.8.
Pre-recorded CDs will not mount or appear on the desktop. They will show up
under the CD drive in disk utility. But when I try to "mount", it says try running first aid on the disk and then retry. But you can't run first aid on it.
They eject fine thru disk utility. Blank CDs appear on the desktop in normal fashion.
Anyone know what's going on? I just updated to iTunes 10 today and am getting nothing. Prior to updating, I was having to "mount" most CDs thru Disk Utility, but they would mount.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Carl

Yeah, I did have the same experience, and lucky that I managed to solve it. I remember that I put my iPod in Disk Mode and pluged it with my Mac, opened the disk utility, but went to Tab "Partition" and clicked Delete, went back to "Erase" and clicked Erase. Once it had completed, opened the iPod updater and clicked "Restore". If you cant solve it this way, go back to your PC and do a format instead of Restore. It really does not matter the the Format get completed or not, as when you plug it (even better - without an iPod software) with a computer (in disk mode), it will recognize it as an external disk and ask you whether you want to format it then do a Restore and you will put it back to life. Bear in mind that the problem is the computer recognizes it as an iPod but does not allow you to do a Restore.

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Hi
Is there a way of mounting drives ( like USB pens) on the desktop for all users please?
It's a causing a lot of confusion here... you think the USB drives aren't working when you can't see them being mounted in front of you.
I do realise you can set this in Finder/Preferences but I wondered if there were a way of just making it the default for any user that logs in ( whether locally or to the domain).
Thanks for your assistance.

micromike wrote:
Thanks for your help Barney.
Hmmmm....why would anyone disable this basic thing?
Here's a reason. I don't use the Desktop, so why would I want the drives to pop up on my desktop.
They appear in my Sidebar in any Finder window.
That's why I turned it off on my system. You'd have to ask the 1000 users why they turned it off.
However, I'm not sure I understand what you want. If you mount a usb drive on your system, and share it out over the network, it is not a Hard Drive on any network user's desktop. It is a network share.

I've loaded lightroom 4 onto my laptop but it won't load up on the desktop.

I have a problem loading lightroom4 onto my desktop. It loaded onto my laptop okay!
But an error message keeps coming up on the desktop.
This is the error message below.
"A problem caused the program to stop working correctly
Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available"
My desktop 32bit, and laptop 64 bit are both running windows 7 pro.

That's a rather generic Windows crash. Does Windows Event Viewer provide more details about what may cause the issue?
Mylenium

IPod Mini won't mount onto my desktop and so I can't update anything

I've tried a few of the 5 "R"s. Restarting my computer. Trying another USB port. Redownloading the latest iPod/iTunes software. I'm hesistant to do the total restore as that's going to erase everything on my beautiful Mini. It'll be a last resort. (Note: I'm not sure "restore" is the correct term although I'm sure it was the last thing Apple suggests. It basically resets your iPod to its original factory settings.) I've got another week or two of audiobooks to listen to before the situation is that desparate.
Anyway, it still charges when it's plugged in. Any ideas on what I should do next? This thing happened a few times temporarily in the past. I just restarted the computer and it worked fine. No such luck this time.
Thanks for any and all words of advice.
Brian
800Mhz eMac. Superdrive. 60Gig HD Mac OS X (10.4.5) iTunes 6.0.3 Mini purchased last spring-not sure what generation that makes it.

Did you check the iPod Support support… As a Mac
Users there are several topics about your problem…
How did you get your problem ? is it after updating
your iTunes software ? does you iPod work anyway ?
I hope you will be able to open this link :
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93718-e
iPod Support-yes. There were a few posts similar to mine but nobody seems to have gotten a satifactory answer.
It just wouldn't mount on my desktop one day.
That I don't know. This could be the case. I don't really remember which updates I've done in the past month (besides the iTune/iPod update I recently did manually.)
The Mini works fine except for the not updating thing.
I had seen that article before but thank you anyway.
It's a mystery.....

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