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How to find correct USB stick drive name on a Mac #607

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Steps to find name of your USB stick
1. Plug drive in any USB port. Make sure it mounts and note the name, usually 
"untitled"
2. Make sure you know the name and it is not duplicated by another drives.
3. Launch Disk Utility, usually located in ../Applications/Utilities/
4. Find the name of the USB stick along the left rail.
5. Click on it once. The information on the bottom of the window should change.
6. Hold the Apple/Command "i" to get info on the drive.
7. You should see your computer's name of the drive, something like "disk11"
8. If you see something like "disk11b", you picked the partition of the disk 
but the name "disk11" is the name you are looking for.
9. In the USB Target Device, if the name of your disk is disk11, it should look 
like this:
     /dev/disk11

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
This was done on Mac OS X 7.2 but should work on older OS Xs. 

Please provide any additional information below.
Hope this can help any confused Macintosh users.

Thank you all for the work behind this.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ken.ta...@gmail.com on 15 Oct 2011 at 7:04