[Nisson48]

My Lacie Back-up HDD does not appear on my desktop and I cannot access the data.
While tinkering with the Ownership & Permissions settings in "file info", suddenly the settings went to "No Access" and I could not bring them back to the original settings like "Read & Write". After a restart, the drive did not show on my desktop. Still, the drive's name appears under Apple Menu but without its icon.
I let "DiskUtility" do its work resulting in "the drive seems to be OK"
In DiskUtility, I can mount and unmount the drive, mounted it has a blank file icon, unmounted the icon turns to the normal, yellow, firewire disk/drive icon. But it doesn't show on the desktop.
Than I let DiskWarrior run. It found Root Block problems that it would repair after replacing the directory. I hit Replace and restarted the Mac, still no disk icon on the desktop.
I let TechTool check the disk. It passed all tests. A restart did not bring the disk icon to the desktop.
How can I regain control over this disk?
BTW, I'm not familiar with Terminal, but I guess that's were I have to go. Anybody?...

All help is greatly appreciated.

Powerbook 12" v1, Tiger 10.4.11, Lacie HDD 250GB

[bastion]

If you open a new Finder window and command-click on the title (the name of whatever folder you're looking at) a menu should pop up. The bottom item in that menu represents your computer and if you select it you should end up looking at a "file" view that includes all mounted storage devices. Does you missing drive appear there?

[Nisson48]

Hello Bastion, thx for your reply...

I take it you meant "CTRL-click" any file icon in the Finder.
I did that and instead of the missing HDD's real name "BU-MOVIES" it says "VolumeName", without an icon.
Using the apps. as I wrote in my post above, the disk always was, and still is, named by its real name: BU-MOVIES.
Does this ring a bell?

[bastion]

Nisson48 said:

Hello Bastion, thx for your reply...

I take it you ment "CTRL-click" any file icon in the Finder.

No. I meant command-click in the title of a window.

[Nisson48]

Ok I understand. I'd cmd-click on the windows title. It listed from top to bottom: the folder's name, Desktop, Home, Users, Internal HD and My Computer.
The connected external back-up HDD did not appear in the listing, also not in the list when clicked on My Computer.

[Heyoka_Happiness]

So I understand you.. The external HHD doesn't mount on you desktop so you can't hit cmond>I to see it the you can access
the "Shareing and Permission pane:




Take a look at this:
http://discussions.a...threadID=435302

[Nisson48]

Hello Heyoka, I followed the link you gave me. As my ext. HDD does not contain any OS, I excecuted A#3 that reads:

+If the disk in question does not have Mac OS X installed, open the Terminal in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and enter the following:
chmod 775 "/Volumes/volumename/"
Replace volumename with the disk's actual name.+

I did that and got the following lines from Terminal:

*PowerBook:~ peter$ chmod 775 "/Volumes/BU-MOVIES/"
chmod: /Volumes/BU-MOVIES/: No such file or directory
PowerBook:~ peter$ *

[Heyoka_Happiness]

You can try:

chflags nouchg /Volumes/"Name of Drive"

If that doesn't clear lock then it may be necessary to run the command as a super user do command:

sudo nouchg /Volumes/"Name of Drive"

You will be prompted for your admin password. The key strokes won't appear so type carefully.

[Nisson48]

Hello Heyoka, and thanks alot for your assistance.
Got my HDD back on the Desktop, and able to access my data...!
Again, thx an awful lot pal.
Greetz, Nisson