Where did my partitions go?

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freaky

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I have four partitions on my hard drive. I deleted the three icons on the desktop because I was tired of them showing up and taking up so much space.

Can somebody tell me how to go about reconnecting to them and if I can access them easily without having to keep the icons on the desktop?
 
Does anybody know the answer to this? I'm freakin' out because I'm worried I deleted them when I emptied the trash. :(
 
the title is a little bit confusing. I thought you really lost your parition. If I got you right, you simply deleted the alias icons. Well, this is no drama. You can find those discs in any new Finder window. You can't delete your partition that easily. That would be really scary otherwise ;)
Anyway, if you want to have those icons back, go to Finder -> choose Preferences and mark the "Show these items on the Desktop" - Harddisc.
If you don't want this, using a Finder window is the best thing. This is how I am doing it. I just allow mounted volumes and CDs to show up on my Desktop.
 
Zammy-Sam,

I went into the Finder and the only thing that is showing up in the top section is Network and Local Disk and the option for Hard Disks is checked. Shouldn't they be right above/below Local Disk? Any ideas where they might be? All I did was dragged the three drive icons to the trash (thinking they were just aliases) and I've already emptied the trash.
 
So when you open a new Finder Window, making sure this window takes you to your Computer, thats where all that stuff is. Open Finder prefs, and see if it is unchecked. Because if you deleted the system, there would be no way for you to be doing what you are doing now.

Do they show up on the side bar of the finder windows? Although, you can drag them out of there as well.
 
I am browsing my computer through the Finder window. All of the options are checked. When I click on the iMac icon, the only thing that's there is Local Disk and Network (but no partition 1, 2, 3, etc.) :(
 
open Disk Utility and see if your partitions show up in there. If they do, try again what I told you in my previous post: click on your background, click on finder on top of the banner right next to the apple icon, click on Preferences... Now mark the first three options and see, if your discs show up on your Desktop. After this, we can fix the rest.
 
bobw said:
Restart
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It worked!!! Thank you!

I was in the process of figuring out how to boot to a CD and thought it was Command / C but it didn't seem to work. Can somebody tell me what the correct keys are to enter? Sorry for the n00b question but I haven't done it in a long time. :)
 
Glad we could help.

To boot from a CD, just hold the C key down, no other key.
 
freaky said:
I have four partitions on my hard drive. I deleted the three icons on the desktop because I was tired of them showing up and taking up so much space.

Can somebody tell me how to go about reconnecting to them and if I can access them easily without having to keep the icons on the desktop?
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I know this issue has already been resolved, but I can help with the "what exactly happened..."

When you "deleted" your hard drives off the desktop, I'm assuming you just dragged them to the trash -- what this does is unmount the drive. It's not gone, but the Finder won't be able to do anything with them until you re-mount them. You can do this via the terminal, but you'll have to know the device names (not the name of the hard drive) to do this.

The simplest fix, as bobw stated, is to reboot. The hard drives will be mounted when the system boots.
 
Zammy

Trashing the drives icons just unmounts the drives. I was waiting for one of you guys with younger brains to tell Freaky to restart.

Guess us old guys are still a little useful :)
 
I did that before, and i remounted somehow, but that was back in Jag, so over a year ago. And i didn't restart, and I know i didn't use Terminal.
 
Disk Utility is in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.

Also, to address your original point, to get rid of the volume icons on the desktop go to the Finder preferences and uncheck hard disks. I happen to have my system set up that way.
 

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