Does anyone know why a HD would suddenly "disappear" from the desktop, when it hasn't been removed and the computer has absolutely NOT been moved or bumped into so as to possibly jostle loose any connections -- and how to bring it back to accessibility?
I have three HDs on my G3/233 DT. The one I'd been using as the startup disk since installing AppleWorks yesterday -- yay, it works! -- was one of the OS 9.1 ones. Well today I'm browsing and my Netscape locks up. I do the traditional "nerve pinch" restart, and that's when the bizarre stuff starts happening --
1. The restart, though successful, occurred using the HD with OS 8.1 on
it, although I had another drive with OS 9.1.
2. The HD I *had* been on, no longer appeared on the desktop.
3. I changed the startup drive to the other OS 9.1 HD, it restarted fine,
but still I had that third drive missing from the desktop.
4. Apple System Profiler doesn't list this "missing drive" as one of the
volumes (it did originally). Also, Disk First Aid and Drive Setup can't
find it either.
It's just....missing!!!
So where did it go, and how do I get it back?
If the physical connections are OK, then either the HD has been corrupted so badly
that the OS can no longer see it or else the drive has failed completely. Is the
drive spinning up? (if you can boot with the case open, rest your finger on the
drive--you should be able to feel it spin up).
Some things to try:
o Third party disk utilities (maybe one of them can see the drive)
o Try the drive in another machine or external case (to rule out a freakish
power, controller or cable failure)
If neither of these works, then it might be a good time to ponder your data backup
situation. :/
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