HDD icon disappeared but disk still in use...?

[Gloor]

Hi,

I came back from a holiday and when I turned on my computer, my main HDD icon (same hdd that the system boots from) is no longer on my desktop nor in finder. I have to manually dig for it to be able to go through the files etc. Anyone knows why is that?
Also, the icon looks grayed a bit compared to others.

see picture for more details

Thanks

Edit: the hdd in question is named Cindy just to clarify that

 

[nardac]

Check in finder preferences , the box :
display the HD in desktop e in sidebar.

 

[Gloor]

Check in finder preferences , the box :
display the HD in desktop e in sidebar.

Got everything ticked. The "Cindy" hdd is not there so I can't even tick it. All other drives are fine and there but not "Cindy"

 

[nardac]

Got everything ticked. The "Cindy" hdd is not there so I can't even tick it. All other drives are fine and there but not "Cindy"

Very strange.
Open terminal and write :
open /Volumes/Cindy

Is opened the window?

 

[ltldrummerboy]

What is the drive named "Untitled"? Boot Camp partition? Try booting from a Mac OS X install disc and then open Disk Utility and repair the disk.

 

[Gloor]

Very strange.
Open terminal and write :
open /Volumes/Cindy

Is opened the window?

It does open it

What is the drive named "Untitled"? Boot Camp partition? Try booting from a Mac OS X install disc and then open Disk Utility and repair the disk.

It is a separate hard drive that is formatted in windows file system only. Not a partition but a whole disk.

The Cindy (system) disk works as usual but the only things that are not ok are: 1)missing icon on the desktop 2) missing icon in the finder

Very strange

 

[nardac]

It does open it

Try to drag the HD icon in the top of the windows "Cindy" in the sidebar

 

[Gloor]

Try to drag the HD icon in the top of the windows "Cindy" in the sidebar

Doesn't work. Doesn't allow me to move it there.

 

[allan.nyholm]

Does it show in Disk Utility? Maybe it's one of those permission problems. Try Permission Repair if you can.

 

[kolax]

What is the drive named "Untitled"? Boot Camp partition? Try booting from a Mac OS X install disc and then open Disk Utility and repair the disk.

To the OP - did you even try this?

You are continuing to ask for help, yet you avoided doing one thing that could fix the problem.

 

[Gloor]

To the OP - did you even try this?

You are continuing to ask for help, yet you avoided doing one thing that could fix the problem.

Actually, I am doing it right now but its taking ages.
Not avoiding, trust me

 

[Gloor]

ok, tried repairing permissions and repairing the disc but its still not there. Any more ideas? It is a really strange issue if you think about it. The disc boots up, I'm able to use it and even look for files in it but it appears like an invisible one. hmm

 

[sickmacdoc]

Well if you have the Developer's tools installed you can try entering the following in the Terminal:

SetFile -a v "/Volumes/Drive Name Goes Here"

Substituting your drive name where appropriate- and the quotations and spaces are important! That is a way (but using a capital V) of hiding drives from the desktop (like I did with my Boot Camp partition icon) while keeping them active, so this version (that re-enables visibility on them once hidden) might do the trick.

 

[Gloor]

Thanks Sickmacdoc but it didn't work. Maybe its because I don't have the tools. )

Anyway, I found a solution that fixed it. This is the command that helped:

sudo chflags nohidden /

and the whole issue explained is here :

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA25203?viewlocale=en_US



Thank you all for trying to help. I appreciate it.

 

[Komiksulo]

Thanks Sickmacdoc but it didn't work. Maybe its because I don't have the tools. )

Anyway, I found a solution that fixed it. This is the command that helped:

sudo chflags nohidden /

and the whole issue explained is here :

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA25203?viewlocale=en_US



Thank you all for trying to help. I appreciate it.

Thanks! My boot drive disappeared from the Finder (but was still navigable), and this command returned it.