My g5 isn't reading my pen drive and it used to be able to read it
I have a G5 powermac and it's not reading my pen drive. The interesting thing is that it used to read the pen drive but now it's not reading ANY of my pen drives. I keep getting the disk insertion box and when I click on disk utility it shows said pen drive but I cannot access the pen drive. Any advice would be helpful.
Hmmm, must not be a G5 Powermac running 10.7.5, as G5s cannot use anything above 10.5.8
At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac.
Then click on More Info>Hardware and report this upto *but not including the Serial#*...
Hardware Overview:
Machine Name: Power Mac G5 Quad
Machine Model: PowerMac11,2
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (1.1)
Number Of CPUs: 4
CPU Speed: 2.5 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 10 GB
Bus Speed: 1.25 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.2.7f1
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