I have lost the internal hard drive icon on my PowerBook G4 1.5Mhz 15" with MacOS 10.4.3, 1.125 GB RAM. The disk suddenly went off the desktop and also the sidebar together with a few other problems at the time, leading to a Finder crash and restart. I had been working in Photoshop CS and Acrobat Professional 6.
Now the drive shows up in Spotlight, and I access the main level of the drive if I open it from there. It also shows up in Disk Utility, and running disk verify shows no error. Same with Applejack and Yasu. I have tried Disk Utility from the disk and also from Tiger install CD. The disk functions normally in all other respects, except it refuses to mount an image to the desktop or to the sidebar. Changing Finder preferences does not help. Other disks mount, through FireWire and USB (iPod shuffle), and the Finder preferences for having them show up or hide also works.
When I get the drive to show through Spotlight, so that I have a Finder window with the icon showing, the icon is grey. I have tried dragging it back into the sidebar, but it just pops right out again, without showing -- a little nudge in the bar, thats all.
I have also made it appear by doing a show hidden files command. That brings it to show on the desktop, but then it disappears again when I turn that function off. So it looks like the main drive mysteriously has been set to be hidden from view.
I use FileVault, but cant think of any connection. The drive also does not show up under other accounts on the same machine.
There is one other symtom which disturbs me. It seems the drive has filled up 2-3 GB more since before this happened. I had it steady around 21 GB free, and now it is down towards 18, with no reason in terms of intended new files. It this is some kind of cache or swap files, they have not been cleaned by Applejack Deep Clean procedure, which is one of the procedures I have run.
Now the drive shows up in Spotlight, and I access the main level of the drive if I open it from there. It also shows up in Disk Utility, and running disk verify shows no error. Same with Applejack and Yasu. I have tried Disk Utility from the disk and also from Tiger install CD. The disk functions normally in all other respects, except it refuses to mount an image to the desktop or to the sidebar. Changing Finder preferences does not help. Other disks mount, through FireWire and USB (iPod shuffle), and the Finder preferences for having them show up or hide also works.
When I get the drive to show through Spotlight, so that I have a Finder window with the icon showing, the icon is grey. I have tried dragging it back into the sidebar, but it just pops right out again, without showing -- a little nudge in the bar, thats all.
I have also made it appear by doing a show hidden files command. That brings it to show on the desktop, but then it disappears again when I turn that function off. So it looks like the main drive mysteriously has been set to be hidden from view.
I use FileVault, but cant think of any connection. The drive also does not show up under other accounts on the same machine.
There is one other symtom which disturbs me. It seems the drive has filled up 2-3 GB more since before this happened. I had it steady around 21 GB free, and now it is down towards 18, with no reason in terms of intended new files. It this is some kind of cache or swap files, they have not been cleaned by Applejack Deep Clean procedure, which is one of the procedures I have run.