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hardisk icon is not showing on desktop
- Thread starter arshzafar
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...on your main desktop view, verify that your finder preferences are allowing hard disks to show, this is under finder > preferences, on the top menu of your desktop...
...the short cut is by pressing apple and the comma key (,)...
...under "general" section you ought to have all those options turned on, also check the "sidebar" section, again, all options here are worth having on...
...if these are on and it still isn't showing then you have a more serious problem with hard disk mounting, which will require specialist software to fix...
andrew
...if as above, the finder preferences are correct and the disk isn't on your desktop, you can try to boot up from the mac os x install disk, then run the disk utility program to check the hard disk...
...if disk utility recognizes a problem but is unable to fix it, then your only other options are to use more specialist software like diskwarrior or tech tools pro to recover the disk back to a usable state...
...once back to a usable state, you would be advised to back up any important data to external media...
...from that point you can either keep working with it in the hope that it will be fine from now on, or do a more drastic measure of rebuilding the OS with a completely fresh install (known as archive and install) by booting from the install disk (archive and install will keep the old OS in a new folder for later retrieval of data you might need)...
andrew
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