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I updated a clients system to 10.4.9 (Installed Tiger then the Combo updater) on a G5 Dual 2Gig and all worked fine for the first day, then the HD Icon for the Boot drive Vanished from the finder, it was still booting from this however, then some time Later the second internal drive did the same. The drives also do not appear in any finder windows either. Disk utility sees the drives and sees no problems. Any installers also see the drives. You can work like normal on any apps you just cannot see the Drives in the finder. Creating a new user shows the same problem so it must be system related. I have read some material on the web that describes the problem and poses some things to try (none of which solved the problem).
Any ideas? Short of backing up (which is done on a regular basis) and re-installing the system?
thanks in advance
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