Missing Partition

[Shotdsherrif]

I've read a few threads here about trying to access a missing partition on the main "boot" drive but I'm having a problem accessing a partition on a storage drive. It has 2 partitions and one of them is basically missing. It appears in the Disk Utilitywindow but not under its filename and without a disk icon. So a part of it is there.

I should also mention that I am in the process of moving this disk to my new G4. It has been in my old G3 and I am relucant to move the physical disk until the partition issue is resolved. But I've also been told that G3 motherboards have had issues with disk partitions.

Any ideas on the most safe and efficient path to take would be appreciated.

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[divergent]

I am running into the same problem, my issue seemed to come up after I had to a hard shut down (my MDD G4 does not like to shut down with my iPod still connected . Afterwards, I can not see the partition in the Finder on the left hand tool bar. However, it is mounted because I can get to it via the terminal (/Volumes/Partition 2) and I can see it in Disk Utility. In Disk Utility there is a link at the bottom of the window that points to /Volumes/Partition 2 and if I click on it, Finder will show the partition in the My Computer list, however it's icon is kind of faded out.

I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, but I had to back my iPod up to this drive a little while ago and I did so my navigating to the series of alphabet folders on the ipod (F00, F01, B00, etc.) and copying them to my 2nd partittion. When I copied them over, I could not see them from within find, only from the terminal.

Any ideas on this? I Thanks in advance!