Can't see desktop drives on startup anymore?

Nothing shows up on the desktop upon startup. Tried to startup from systems disk but only disk images show on screen like a screen saver? Help.
Lawrence

OK, that just means the hard disk either has a damaged directory, or is dead, or does not have anything installed on it presently, has the wrong jumpers connected for slave/master, or is in a format 9 does not understand. And it sounds like to me that your desktop pattern is showing where you expect the hard drive to be.
1. Formatting which may not allow hard drives to appear in Mac OS 9 include certain Windows formatted drives that Mac OS 9 doesn't support.
2. If adding a new hard drive, you have to make sure its cable color is the one which matches with the labelled master or slave setting on the hard drive itself, as well as the jumper which is a pin cover on the back of the hard drive next to the the hard drive's interface pins. You'll see a diagram on most hard drives, where that jumper should reside. If the hard drive used to be visible, and never was internally modified by changing its connected cable or jumper, this issue does not apply.
3. If your data is not backed up on the invisible hard drive, it is recommended you get Prosoft Data Rescue and an external hard drive of equivalent size to attempt to recover your data.
4. If your data is backed up, Alsoft Disk Warrior can fix your directory, assuming the hard drive is not malfunctioning.
By the way a couple of terms I'd like to let you know about so that when you ask questions, you don't confuse those trying to help you:
1. Screen Saver - A screen saver is typically an animated display, and/or a screen darkener which automatically runs after a set period of time in your control panels/system preferences (Mac OS X calls Control Panels system preferences), and can often be activated via moving your cursor to a corner of the screen. After Dark was a very popular Mac OS 9 and older version of Mac OS screen saver.
2. Wallpaper/desktop pattern - The image which appears behind all the disks, folders, and files beneath your menubar which can be modified via various control panels/system preferences that manage that kind of thing.

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