OT Startup disk icon gone invisible
I'm on a G5 with OSX 10.4.8. Suddenly my startup disk has become invisible.
Everything is there and still works. It boots but the disk doesn't show up
on the desktop. I can see it in disk utilities. Searches find its
contents. Any wisdom?
Cheers
Gary Lee Nelson
Oberlin College
www.timara.oberlin.edu/GaryLeeNelson
On 17-mai-07, at 18:35, Gary Lee Nelson wrote:
> I'm on a G5 with OSX 10.4.8. Suddenly my startup disk has become
> invisible.
> Everything is there and still works. It boots but the disk doesn't
> show up
> on the desktop. I can see it in disk utilities. Searches find its
> contents. Any wisdom?
I can't check for OS X.4.8 now, but on my OS X.3.9, in the Finder's
Preferences (Finder menu-> Preferences), in the General section, you
can choose wether the Hard disks are displayed on the desktop or not).
p
Yes, I tried that. Other disks were showing up OK. It was something
strange. I ran DiskWarrior and it returned. So now it's back to draining
the swamp*. Thanks to all who replied.
Cheers
Gary Lee Nelson
Oberlin College
www.timara.oberlin.edu/GaryLeeNelson
*When you are up to your ass in alligators it's hard to remember that the
original object was to drain the swamp.
On 5/17/07 12:57 PM, "Patrick Delges" wrote:
>
> On 17-mai-07, at 18:35, Gary Lee Nelson wrote:
>
>> I'm on a G5 with OSX 10.4.8. Suddenly my startup disk has become
>> invisible.
>> Everything is there and still works. It boots but the disk doesn't
>> show up
>> on the desktop. I can see it in disk utilities. Searches find its
>> contents. Any wisdom?
>
> I can't check for OS X.4.8 now, but on my OS X.3.9, in the Finder's
> Preferences (Finder menu-> Preferences), in the General section, you
> can choose wether the Hard disks are displayed on the desktop or not).
>
> p
>
You should also do an immediate full backup of the disk, and keep
backing up on a daily basis. This might be an early (or late) warning
that the disk is sick and dying.
Best,
Trond
Gary Lee Nelson wrote:
> Yes, I tried that. Other disks were showing up OK. It was something
> strange. I ran DiskWarrior and it returned. So now it's back to draining
> the swamp*. Thanks to all who replied.
>
> Cheers
> Gary Lee Nelson
> Oberlin College
> www.timara.oberlin.edu/GaryLeeNelson
>
> *When you are up to your ass in alligators it's hard to remember that the
> original object was to drain the swamp.
>
>
> On 5/17/07 12:57 PM, "Patrick Delges" wrote:
>
>> On 17-mai-07, at 18:35, Gary Lee Nelson wrote:
>>
>>> I'm on a G5 with OSX 10.4.8. Suddenly my startup disk has become
>>> invisible.
>>> Everything is there and still works. It boots but the disk doesn't
>>> show up
>>> on the desktop. I can see it in disk utilities. Searches find its
>>> contents. Any wisdom?
>> I can't check for OS X.4.8 now, but on my OS X.3.9, in the Finder's
>> Preferences (Finder menu-> Preferences), in the General section, you
>> can choose wether the Hard disks are displayed on the desktop or not).
I have exactly the same problem. 3 weeks ago, my startup disk just
disapeared.
I ran all test and repairs utilities I know, but no way.
the system volume is hidden, and I can't find a way to show it.
everything works fine, so I could live with it until now... but I
would love too to recover my HD !
I have a windows partition too on that disk. this one hasn't
disapeared...
[maxbook pro os X.4.9...]
of course, I make a dayly backup of everything...just in case... but
I'm pretty sure that's it's not an hardware problem. there's probably
some magic words to type in the terminal to resolve everything... no ?
best,
Mathieu
www.maxobjects.com
http://mathieu.chamagne.free.fr
I fixed it !
in terminal, type :
/Developer/Tools/SetFile -a v /Volumes/Your_HD_Name
(to change Volume attribute : V set to invisible, v set to visible)
(after that, I had to go in desktop preferences and uncheck + check
again "show on the desktop" "hard drive" to 'refresh' the icon on
the desktop)
hope it will work for you !
cheers
Mathieu