My mac freezes when i plug in my flash drive.

I want to know if this is a serious problem, or if i need an update or something. It was working fine a few hours ago with the flash drive and everything, but i just plugged in the flash drive again, and EVERYTHING froze. the mouse would still move around, though, but i couldnt click anything.
Message was edited by: Calvo819

Did you properly unmount the flash drive the last time you used it? I have never heard of a flash drive causing a system crash. if it was not ejected properly, than it is very possible that the data on it got corrupted and that when you tried to mount it the system simply could not read the data and it tied up all the processor cycles attempting to do so. If the spinning beachball was present then the system did not crash, rather the processor was completely tied up trying to read the data on the drive. It probably would have eventually give you an error message and offered to reformat the drive.
More than likely you will need to reformat the flash drive. How you will do it is another question if you cannot mount it or cannot get the Disk Utility program to see the drive so it can be reformatted.
What I would try is starting up from my system CD, when booted from it insert the flash drive, open Disk Utility. If the flash drive is present, select it and see if DU can repair it. If not, just reformat it.
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