HDD not showing

[kidwithdimples]

I just turned on my macbook and I don't see the harddrive icon on the desktop. It was working perfectly fine last night. This is werid =\ do I have to reinstall Leopard all over again?

Plus in Finder, under Devices, I don't see the HDD.

:S

 

[karenflower]

Go to Finder > Preferences, and under the General tab make sure 'Hard disks' is selected under 'Show these items on the Desktop', as well as in the Sidebar tab.

 

[kidwithdimples]

It was already ticked in both General and Side Tab.

 

[kidwithdimples]

Thanks for trying to help me. I appreciate it. I did some googling and found out the solution.

The problem was that my harddisk became invisible. That's all.

All I did was launch ScriptEditor and pasted this:

tell application "System Events"
set visible of disk "NameofDisk" to true
end tell

tell application "Finder" to quit
delay 1
tell application "Finder" to launch

Then hit Compile then finally Run.
* Replace NameofDisk with the actual name of your disk

The article is here: http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/invisible.html

I can see the harddisk again. w00t!

 

[karenflower]

Yay! Good job on solving it.

 

[kidwithdimples]

Actually once you restart it goes away again... so read that article and maybe this: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6576031