[GNO226]

I have a Power Mac G4 Quick silver. This is really the first problem I have had with it and of coarse its my fault.
I have a secondary internal Hard drive that for some reason doesn't want to appear on my desktop. When I
go into the Disk Utilities folder the Hard drive does appear in that particular window and the utilities manager
does state that the hard drive is working properly. The only thing I see different about it is the icon is a blank
white page instead of the Hard drive icon.
The last thing I did with it was on the "Get Info" option on the hard drive folder I went to disk permissions and from the drop down bar I choose my name and selected "No access" due to my niece needed to work on my computer and didn't want to allow her into some of the more personal information I had in that particular hard drive because she has been know to not only get nosey but to "accidently" delete information. Now in the past when I've done this its never
given me this problem. Does anyone have any suggestions for me. I must tell you that Yes I have tons of
Important info in this hard drive and cant afford to lose any of it. Please Help.
Thanx GNO

[dougster]

GNO226 said:

I must tell you that Yes I have tons of
Important info in this hard drive and cant afford to lose any of it. Please Help.
Thanx GNO

-Hi and welcome,

So we assume you have a couple types of media backup for your data since its important? Peek here and try resetting the PMU.

[GNO226]

Thanks and I will try this step. I am willing to try anything at this point and seems to be a good shot. Thanks Again GNO

[GNO226]

One more questions If I dont have all the data backed up will this delete all data on this hard drive. I haven't backed up the date for about 2 and a half months.

[dougster]

When ever I've done this on folks Mac's its never lost data. But its always nice to have it backed up....as you well know.

[smax013]

Resetting the PMU should cause any loss of data on the drive.