Hard Drive Icon Not Showing Up on Desktop
Hey folks, this might be a very very noobish question, but I guess I'm fairly new to OSX...
My Hard Disk Drive icon is not showing up on my desktop for some reason...if I open a New Finder Window, I can't see it on the upper left hand quadrant in columnar view, but I can get to all the shortcut folders in the lower left hand quadrant (Applications, Documents, Movies, etc.), but can't navigate to the root directory unless I use Terminal (yup, I'm root user).
When I go into Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app) then I can see the drive itself as well as the Windows partition I created for Bootcamp purposes. I tried Verify Drive and Verify Permissions to see if there were some weird problems with the drive itself but both came back perfect, and still no HDD icon on the desktop.
I have a feeling it's just some weird setting I may have inadvertently tweaked, so any feedback, advice, or information on how to get it back would be very welcome and appreciated. In case it's any help, here is the HDD Information from Get Info:
Name : HDD_loc
Type : Volume
Disk Identifier : disk0s2
Mount Point : /
File System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus : Serial ATA 2
Partition Type : Apple_HFS
Device Tree : /PCI0/SATA@1F,2/PRT0@0/PMP@0/@0:2
Writable : Yes
Universal Unique Identifier : FA4BDB3B-DA6C-3E01-A726-41B2B9846E79
Capacity : 135.0 GB (144,955,146,240 Bytes)
Free Space : 41.5 GB (44,599,959,552 Bytes)
Used : 93.5 GB (100,355,186,688 Bytes)
Number of Files : 792,250
Number of Folders : 148,707
Owners Enabled : Yes
Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Repair Permissions : Yes
Can Be Verified : Yes
Can Be Repaired : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : Yes
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Verified
Disk Number : 0
Partition Number : 2
Additionally, I'm not doing any kind of Full Disk Encryption whether using Apple's built-in encryption or some third-party such as PGP.
Thanks in advance!
My Hard Disk Drive icon is not showing up on my desktop for some reason...if I open a New Finder Window, I can't see it on the upper left hand quadrant in columnar view, but I can get to all the shortcut folders in the lower left hand quadrant (Applications, Documents, Movies, etc.), but can't navigate to the root directory unless I use Terminal (yup, I'm root user).
When I go into Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app) then I can see the drive itself as well as the Windows partition I created for Bootcamp purposes. I tried Verify Drive and Verify Permissions to see if there were some weird problems with the drive itself but both came back perfect, and still no HDD icon on the desktop.
I have a feeling it's just some weird setting I may have inadvertently tweaked, so any feedback, advice, or information on how to get it back would be very welcome and appreciated. In case it's any help, here is the HDD Information from Get Info:
Name : HDD_loc
Type : Volume
Disk Identifier : disk0s2
Mount Point : /
File System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus : Serial ATA 2
Partition Type : Apple_HFS
Device Tree : /PCI0/SATA@1F,2/PRT0@0/PMP@0/@0:2
Writable : Yes
Universal Unique Identifier : FA4BDB3B-DA6C-3E01-A726-41B2B9846E79
Capacity : 135.0 GB (144,955,146,240 Bytes)
Free Space : 41.5 GB (44,599,959,552 Bytes)
Used : 93.5 GB (100,355,186,688 Bytes)
Number of Files : 792,250
Number of Folders : 148,707
Owners Enabled : Yes
Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Repair Permissions : Yes
Can Be Verified : Yes
Can Be Repaired : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : Yes
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Verified
Disk Number : 0
Partition Number : 2
Additionally, I'm not doing any kind of Full Disk Encryption whether using Apple's built-in encryption or some third-party such as PGP.
Thanks in advance!
Macbook Pro 15", Mac OS X (10.4.10), 2.4GHz, 4GB RAM, 200GB 7200RPM HDD
