cant find hard drive icon...

josh air balloo · Feb 10, 2010, 05:57 PM

just bought a macbook today and when i started it up, i noticed there was no hard drive icon on the desktop. so i opened up the finder, and made the mistake by dragging the hard drive icon that is on the left side of the finder out of the finder and tried to put it on the desktop. instead it just deleted the icon and now im not able to find it. any help??

thank you.

spinnerlys · Feb 10, 2010, 06:00 PM

Finder > Preferences (CMD+,) > Sidebar

There you can put back the HDD icon into the Sidebar.

To have an HDD icon on the Desktop:

Also have a look at the following links, as the information presented there might be helpful in your future endeavours into Mac OS X and could clear up initial confusion and may even prevent harm to your system or your files.

http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/ - text
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/ - videos
http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/ - text
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343 - keyboard shortcuts

Draythor · Feb 10, 2010, 06:02 PM

Open up finder.
Preferences
General and sidebar both have options to display the hard drive where you want them to.

josh air balloo · Feb 10, 2010, 06:03 PM

thank you so much. ive been using emacs and imacs for years now, and never have known how to do that. thank you again.

Feb 10, 2010, 05:57 PM	#1
josh air balloo macrumors newbie Join Date: Feb 2010	cant find hard drive icon... just bought a macbook today and when i started it up, i noticed there was no hard drive icon on the desktop. so i opened up the finder, and made the mistake by dragging the hard drive icon that is on the left side of the finder out of the finder and tried to put it on the desktop. instead it just deleted the icon and now im not able to find it. any help?? thank you.
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Feb 10, 2010, 06:02 PM	#3
Draythor macrumors 6502 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Exeter University, UK	Open up finder. Preferences General and sidebar both have options to display the hard drive where you want them to. __________________ iPod touch 3rd gen 32GB 13.3" uMBP 2.26GHz 4GB 160HD Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS3
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Feb 10, 2010, 06:00 PM	#2
spinnerlys Guest Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: forlod bygningen	Finder > Preferences (CMD+,) > Sidebar There you can put back the HDD icon into the Sidebar. To have an HDD icon on the Desktop: Also have a look at the following links, as the information presented there might be helpful in your future endeavours into Mac OS X and could clear up initial confusion and may even prevent harm to your system or your files. http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/ - text http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/ - videos http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/ - text http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343 - keyboard shortcuts
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Feb 10, 2010, 06:03 PM	#4
josh air balloo Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Feb 2010	thank you so much. ive been using emacs and imacs for years now, and never have known how to do that. thank you again.
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