Well I got Kalyway Leopard 10.5.2 installed and everything works great.

However in the last few days the Hardrive has vanished from both the desktop and from finder, I have checked the settings and "show hard drives" is ticked in General and Finder preferences.

Have been searching like crazy to find anyone that has come across this before, I would really like to be able to fix without a re-install if at all possible.

I have already tried creating a new user and it makes no difference, please help as I have only just made the transistion to OSX and am still a little green on fixing issues.

Right in case anyone ever runs into this problem, I tried nearly everything even calling the local Apple dealer to try and sort this without a re-install.

Turns out this issue must have been caused by plugging in my external 120Gb hard drive as I went to a mates house and plugged in my HDD to his G5 running tiger and guess what. His Main drive vanished as well!

So, after much searching he managed to come across a fix for this issue.

Launch ScriptEditor and copy and paste this into the script window:

tell application "System Events"
set visible of disk "NameofDisk" to true
end tell

tell application "Finder" to quit
delay 1
tell application "Finder" to launch

Replace NameofDisk with the actual name of your disk, hit the Compile icon to make sure the script didn't acquire any errors, and then hit run. This should set the visible attribute back to visible and quit and relaunch the Finder, thus making the change available.

The same thing can happen to other drives, both internal and external. You can use the same Applescript to fix those as well, just put in the name of the drive.




Now my drive is now visible again without a full re-install, this works for Tiger and Leopard too!

Hope this helps someone who runs into the same problem in the future.

Hey thanks a lot
you just saved my another re-installation