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brooklin
 
 
2005-12-15, 02:18

Well, my hard drive has disappeared. It is a Maxtor internal drive. It isn't my main boot drive, in case you were wondering how I knew it was gone. I believe I might have accidently ejected it. If I did, what can I do to remount it? What other occurance could explain this? I've restarted in attempts to get it to load. I don't believe it has failed, it hasn't shown any signs of beginning to do so.
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Brad
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
 
2005-12-15, 02:19

/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility

Select your volume from the list on the left and either click the Mount button in the toolbar or choose Mount from the File menu.

You can unmount (like ejecting) any volume from the Finder except your startup volume. Maybe you accidentally dragged its icon to the trash/eject icon on the Dock. I'm surprised it didn't mount after rebooting, though.

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julesstoop
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Location: Leiden, the Netherlands
 
2005-12-15, 02:19

Disk utility might remount your drive
Brad beat me to it...
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