Thumb drive plugged into usb

I have plugged a 4 gig thumb drive into one of my usb ports on the back of my imac, can not see it, but I am a new imac user and may just not know how to access it. I would like to save files/photo's to it to use on my pc, can't do it. . . . Help

First you need to make sure you have the finder settings set to view external disk, in the finder click on the finder menu and select finder preferences the click the general tab and then make sure the external disk is checked. If you still can't see launch disk utility and see if that program can see it in the left window area. If if can then you make need to reformat the drive to use it on a Mac. If you want to use it on both PC and Mac make sure you select MS-FAT format.

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