hard drive won't show on desktop

[jay-mac]

I have a Lacie Porsche 160 gb firewire drive, it worked well, I ve had it a couple of years. Now when I plug it in it won't show the disk image on the desktop. system profiler finds it and I have the Lacie upgrade tool and that checks it and says it is up to date. I have tried it on on two other macbooks one older, one newer all Leopards, and one imac desktop. They all found it. so it appears to be a problem with my laptop only. has anyone any suggestion.
I did use it with time machine but it ran out of space, Using another laptop I have deleted al lot of stuff off it and tried changing its name.

Jay

 

[max¥¥]

in finder click finder menu then click preferences then click the external disks checkbox

 

[jay-mac]

Thanks for your reply

Both the desktop and sidebar external drive box are checked but still no drive appearing on my desktop. I have unchecked them restarted and then checked them again. with the drive switched off an on again. but nothing.

 

[kxfrog]

Go into disk utility and repair the disk

 

[jay-mac]

still not there

The Lacie HD doesn't show in the disk Utility, but since I was there i have repaired permissions etc. it still doesn't show on the desktop, I've looked agin in the system profiler and it's there, but that's all. Initially I just wanted to save some large files as my macbook is very full and I needed to remove some of the excess but now if only my HD would show up I would save the lot and zap the whole thing and start again. I have already reinstalled the OS keeping all my stuff on the previous systems folder.

 

[jay-mac]

one more thing

I noticed in the finder prefs that ipods should show on the desktop and sidebar, my ipod touch doesn't show up there either. it appears in itunes so no problem updating that.

 

[DewGuy1999]

Amazing Disappearing Drives, or The Invisibility Plague