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changing name of USB flash drive
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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Hi
I just bought a 32 MB flash drive. Its the Cigar Pro from www.soyousa.com
When I plug it into my G4 PB with OSX 10.2.5 it mounts with the name NO_NAME. I can't seem to change that. Does anyone know how to change the name ??
I don't want to lose the Windows functionality - its for my son and he is going to need to use it on Windows machines at school.
thanks - Michael
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Oh DUH! I just reformated it as MS-DOS with Disk Utility and with a new name. I actually tried that earlier today and didn't get the MS-DOS option in the drop down menu.
Its fixed now.
Michael
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cool good to hear u fixed it 
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Originally posted by mmurray:
Oh DUH! I just reformated it as MS-DOS with Disk Utility and with a new name. I actually tried that earlier today and didn't get the MS-DOS option in the drop down menu.
Its fixed now.
Michael
You probably didn't click the volume name the first time, instead you clicked the device name. I think that's how things work with my CF cards.
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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Actually it's the reverse -- you have to click the device, not the volume (since Apple's Drive Utility can't do multiple FAT partitions).
tooki
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Thanks to this thread, I've just re-named my USB thumbdrive and all my "no_name" SD cards which have been bugging me for months - thankyou!
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Originally posted by tooki:
Actually it's the reverse -- you have to click the device, not the volume (since Apple's Drive Utility can't do multiple FAT partitions).
tooki
I wondered if I had it backwards. Didn't have anything handy to try it with, hadta do it from memory.
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On that formatting topic: is it possible to have disk utility partition a USB key drive with one MS-DOS part and an ordinary HFS+ part? If so, how?
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Originally posted by Hozie:
On that formatting topic: is it possible to have disk utility partition a USB key drive with one MS-DOS part and an ordinary HFS+ part? If so, how?
Check under the 'partition' tab in Disk Utility. I've partitioned CF cards before, can't see why it wouldn't work with a key drive.
I partitioned the CF card just to see if it would work. It of course won't operate in my camera partitioned, it just for fun. I imagine you'd be doing this for fun too, since Windows and Mac OS can read DOS-formatted stuff.
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