USB's showing in disk utility but MacBook Air unable to read files
Intel MacBook Air 2018 16.GHz Dual Core intel core i5 running Sonoma 14.8
I have two USB FAT32 sticks which used to work and give access to files on the MacBook Air but recently have stopped working.
They both still work normally when I plug them into my Mac mini 2018 running Sequoia 15.7.
The sticks show on disk utility but will not mount:
USB 3.1 Bus:
Host Controller Driver: AppleUSBXHCITR
PCI Device ID: 0x15ec
PCI Revision ID: 0x0006
PCI Vendor ID: 0x8086
Bus Number: 0x00
SanDisk 3.2Gen1:
Product ID: 0x5595
Vendor ID: 0x0781 (SanDisk Corporation)
Version: 1.00
Serial Number:0101463a82eaa6a97f882c302924173c965c8830d1fd1972c6100fcb200e769dd81500000000000000000000378f2dd0ff192e0095558107cba95061
Speed: Up to 5 Gb/s
Manufacturer: USB
Location ID: 0x00100000 / 1
Current Available (mA): 900
Current Required (mA): 896
Extra Operating Current (mA): 0
Media:
SanDisk 3.2Gen1:
Capacity: 61.53 GB (61,530,439,680 bytes)
Removable Media: Yes
BSD Name: disk2
Logical Unit: 0
Partition Map Type: MBR (Master Boot Record)
SMART status: Verified
USB Interface: 0
Volumes:
DISK2:
Capacity: 61.53 GB (61,530,423,296 bytes)
File System: MS-DOS FAT32
BSD Name: disk2s1
Content: DOS_FAT_32
Volume UUID: 9C2F4EFF-64EE-3849-92DC-4FBE00A81DFF
System info also shows the two ports and the sticks.
I’ve run Apple diagnostics which has not raised any errors with the code ~ ADP000.
I have reset the PRAM, NVRAM & SMC several times without success and carried out first aid without errors.
The data below comes from Terminal which also shows disk2 identified:
Last login: Fri Sep 19 16:54:45 on ttys001
The default interactive shell is now zsh.
To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`.
For more details, please visit Page Not Found - Official Apple Support
MacBook-Air:~ macbookair$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 121.0 GB disk0s2
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +121.0 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data 54.2 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 2.4 GB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 1.2 GB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume VM 20.5 KB disk1s4
5: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 10.3 GB disk1s5
6: APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 10.3 GB disk1s5s1
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *61.5 GB disk2
1: DOS_FAT_32 DISK2 61.5 GB disk2s1
MacBook-Air:~ macbookair$
Can anyone give me a fix for this please so that I can read the files again on a USB stick connected to the MacBook?
Thank you
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 14.8