Main HD not showing

[Simon R.]

This is strange. Today when I booted my Mac Pro, my system harddrive is not showing on the desktop or in the file structure. Everything is working fine, I just can't access my HD directly from the finder. In Disk Utility I can see the "mount point" is simply "/", is this normal or is something screwed up? Anyway, if someone knows how to get my HD back, it would be great.

 

[gr8tfly]

Check Finder->Preferences General.

"Show these items on the Desktop:"

See if "Hard disks" is checked.

Hope this helps.

edit: mount point "/" is correct

 

[Simon R.]

My other two HD's are showing so this is not the problem. Also, the Mac HD is not showing in the device list on the left of finder windows.

 

[gr8tfly]

Hummmm...

Have you tried "Repair Disk Permissions" in Disk Utility?

As for sidebar, there's a preference for what's displayed in Finder->Preferences "Sidebar". Try un-checking, then re-checking the "Hard disks" option.

 

[Simon R.]

Yes, repairing disk permissions didn't fix it - neither did uncheck/checking the HD show setting.

 

[gr8tfly]

Have you run any system utilities lately? (CacheOut, or maybe an image restore?)

Maybe this will help: Topic: Internal HD icon missing on desktop/sidebar after cache out X

 

[Simon R.]

Have you run any system utilities lately? (CacheOut, or maybe an image restore?)

Maybe this will help: Topic: Internal HD icon missing on desktop/sidebar after cache out X

Nope, haven't done anything like that. But I will take a look and see if there is a fix written there, thanks.