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brucecow - Apr 11, 2005 - 7:12 pm

Hello-

I was transferring some Power-point files from one G4 power-book to another G4 power-book using a fire-wire cable and Target mode. I have done this a few times before and it all worked very well. This time, however, I had a problem.

Normally, I see the Fire-wire icon on the receiving computer. This time I saw two hard-drive icons. One was from my "sending computer" (Specifically, "Bruce's Hard Drive"). I was in a hurry and, in order to unmount the Fire-wire connection, I dragged the Fire-wire icon and the "Bruce's Hard Drive" icon to the trash and emptied the trash. To my great dismay, I noticed that I no longer had a "Bruce's Hard Drive" icon on my "sending computer" ...(

I am able to boot my "sending computer" normally and do almost anything. However, accessing items on my hard-drive is a hassle. Uploading new applications to my hard drive is impossible (because there is no icon to "point to"), and I have had to resort to a work-around solution just to access my existing applications.

I have tried to re-install my operating system. That just took me from OS X 2.8 down to OS X 2.0 (and any attempts to update my OS meet with an error message that stops the installation).

My question is: How do I get my Hard Drive icon back to my original desktop? Thank you in advance!

DeltaMac - Apr 11, 2005 - 8:07 pm

If you go to your Finder Preferences, you should see the choice to display hard drives on the desktop. Check that box and your drive should show immediately.
If that does not work, close any open windows on your desktop, and choose 'Computer' from your 'Go' menu. You should then see an icon for your hard drive. You can create an alias for your hard drive, and drag that to your desktop.

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brucecow - Apr 11, 2005 - 8:35 pm

RE: Apr 11, 4:07pm DeltaMac D.

Thank you for your quick reply! Unfortunately, both suggestions could not remedy my problem. In Finder Preferences, the Hard Drives box was already checked. I unchecked it and closed the menu and re-checked it...all to no avail: still no icon.
Choosing 'Computer' from my 'Go' menu only displays my 'Network' icon...there is no Hard Disk icon in that window ... anymore. So, there was nothing to make an alias of. Thank you, again.
~b

bobw - Apr 12, 2005 - 11:07 am

Hi Bruce

Open Disk Utility and see if it sees the drive. If it does, highlight it and click Mount.


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brucecow - Apr 12, 2005 - 1:29 pm

Hi Bob-

I opened Disk Utility. It seemed to see the drive (so I hilighted "Macintosh HD), but the Options menu grayed out "Mount." In the Information Tab of Disk Utility it reads--- Mount Point: / All of the other info titles seem to read normally.

bobw - Apr 12, 2005 - 2:02 pm

Bruse

Try mounting through the Terminal app. Use this command;

disktool -m disk2

where 'disk2' would be the name of your disk as seen in Disk Utility>Info>Disk Indentifier.


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brucecow - Apr 12, 2005 - 2:58 pm

I thought we had it this time...but still no help. I went to Disk Utility and looked under the Information Tab. Nothing there said "Identifier". The categories listed were: Mount Point, Format, Capacity, Available, Used, Number of Files, Number of Folders. Is that the page I need to find the "disk 2" identifier? In the column on the left side of that page, it does list "27.95 GB IBM-" and a sublisting of "Macintosh HD". I used Macintosh HD for disk2 in Terminal....no dice. It returned: Cannot find device /dev/Macintosh

Here is what I see before I type anything in Terminal--
[Bruce-(my last name)-Computer:~] brucecow%
Here is what it looks like when I typed the command--
[Bruce-(my last name)-Computer:~] brucecow% disktool -m Macintosh HD
Here is what I see after I hit Return--
Cannot find device /dev/Macintosh

Is Terminal looking in the right place?

brucecow - Apr 12, 2005 - 3:05 pm

Hi again!
FYI, I just typed the command you sent me but without the "-" before the "m". Here is what I saw in Terminal--
[Bruce-(my last name)-Computer:~] brucecow% disktool m Macintosh HD
*** Unrecognized disk appeared on disk0 ***
*** Unrecognized disk appeared on disk0s1 ***
*** Unrecognized disk appeared on disk0s2 ***
*** Unrecognized disk appeared on disk0s3 ***
*** Unrecognized disk appeared on disk0s4 ***
***Disk Appeared ('disk0s5',Mountpoint = '/', fsType = 'hfs', volName = 'Macintosh HD')
***Notifications Complete for type 1

Does any of that help?

bobw - Apr 12, 2005 - 3:06 pm

Bruce

Type this in Terminal -


disktool -l


This will list any volumes. See what the disknumber is and then try

disktool -m disk(yourdisknumber)

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bobw - Apr 12, 2005 - 3:12 pm

Bruce

try

disktool -m disk0s5


or

sudo diskutil mount /dev/diskos5 force

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