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My iMac HD is nowhere to be found, help!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 / System Settings, iMac
The Macintosh HD on my 17 inch iMac is nowhere to be found. Have you ever heard of such a thing? In reality it’s still there, ’cause all my applications are still working and I still have all my photos and stuff. An alias HD shows up on the desktop though. Help!
- Norm
Often this issue is caused by a preference change in your Apple computer. Click once on the Desktop and then select “Preferences” from the Finder menu. Under the General tab mark all the checkboxes in the “Show these items on Desktop” section.
- Jacob
August 28th, 2009 at 11:11 am
What Norm is reporting might be this disappearance of the hard drive from the list in the sidebar – if you drag it out of the sidebar onto the desktop it’s removed from the sidebar.
Either drag the drive’s desktop alias into the sidebar, or choose Preferences from the Finder’s “Finder” menu and go to the sidebar tab, rechecking the box for “Hard Disks”