How do I put a hard drive icon on my desktop in Lion?

I've attempted using the age-old method of preferences--> general but I've had no success. Thanks!

Got it! Thanks anyway!

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  • How do I put the hard drive icon on my desktop?

    Been awhile since I've been back in the Mac world. Bought a new iMac (Intel-based). How do I put the hard drive icon on my desktop. When I go to it from the "go" menu in the finder, making an alias isn't even a choice!

    Click anywhere on your desktop so that Finder is displayed up on the menu bar. Next open Finder Preferences... select the General tab and check the Hard disks box.
    Dennis
    Message was edited by: den.thed
    oops' me too........

  • How can I put a hard drive icon on desktop?

    how can I put a hard drive icon on desktop?

    Click on the Desktop. Select Preferences from the Finder's menu. Click on the General icon in the toolbar. Check the appropriate boxes.

  • How do I place the hard drive icon on my desktop on a 2011 mac mini? thank you

    I Just bought a Mac Mini yesterday and its pretty cool and everything. But 2 things have left me scratching my Head. I cant see my hard drive image on the desktop nor on the finder! So I can´t access a lot of stull I transfered from my other computer.
    Another thing is that When I transfered my users from my older computer (by old I mean a G5 Power PC) I saw the users but I couldnt find any data that belonged to any of them. I found Out after a very frustrating 2 and a half hour migration process. Any pointers?

    eyedr wrote:
    I cant see my hard drive image on the desktop nor on the finder!
    in finder > preferences > general. is this box ticked ?
    also, finder > preferences > sidebar
    Another thing is that When I transfered my users from my older computer (by old I mean a G5 Power PC) I saw the users but I couldnt find any data that belonged to any of them. I found Out after a very frustrating 2 and a half hour migration process. Any pointers?
    see Kappy's Basic Guide for Migrating to Intel-Macs

  • How can I add the hard drive icon to the menu bar on a MBPr

    How can I add the hard drive icon to the menu bar on a MBPr?  I have downloaded Google Earth and it wants me to drag it to the hard drive for install. I was able to display the icon but now I would like to put it on the menu bar. Is this possible? Or can I add it to the hardware section under system preferences?
    I'm a new Apple user, coming out of the dark ages of a lifetime in the PC Windows world.
    Thanks

    It's on your Desktop, is it not? You cannot put it on the menubar through OS X although you may find third-party utilities that will. If you want it on the Desktop:
    Select Preferences from the Finder's Finder menu and check the desired boxes:
    Click on the Sidebar icon in the toolbar to set what you want displayed in the Sidebar.

  • I have lost my Hard Drive icon on my desktop. How do I get it back.

    I have lost my Hard Drive icon on my desktop. How do I get it back.

    Quick thing to try: from the Finder, select the View menu and then select "Clean Up" in case it has wandered somewhere almost off the desktop.  Also, if it is "hiding" behind something, it will be revealed.

  • How do you put your hard drive from an old computer to your new mac?

    how do you put your hard drive from an old computer to your new mac?
    i want to get the pictures, etc off of my old mac onto my new mac desktop. how can i do this?

    You don't.
    How to use Migration Assistant:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4889?viewlocale=en_US
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4413?viewlocale=en_US
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1963
    Troubleshooting Firewire target disk mode:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661

  • What happens when the external icon jumps on top on the hard drive icon on the desktop?

    The external drive icon jumped to the hard drive icon on the desktop and after that happen the iMAC started running slow. Not sure how that happen or what is happening to the iMAC after it happen. All my applications are running and launching slow.  Also, when I tried moving files to the external drive I'll get a "error code -36". When I looked up the error message it says that the file is corrupted even though I could still open them. How can I fix this problem and not lose any files?  Thanks for any help.

    RRFS has probably got the answer basically - but the combined contents of the two drives has probably maxed out the drive space on Macintosh HD, meaning the OS can't use virtual memory properly.
    Open a Finder window and read the available space at the bottom.
    If you have copied the drive, it should show as a folder under Macintosh HD in the Finder.
    I hesitate to tell you to delete the whole folder as that may be too much for Finder to cope with. Open the folder and delete files and folders in small chunks, emptying the trash each time before doing the next..
    Meanwhile, if you go to the Finder preferences and uncheck the item for Hard Disks in the desktop list, then move the icon for the external away from that corner before re-enabling the Hard disk option.
    You may need to go to View options from the right-click menu on desktop and set 'arrange by' to 'none' in order to get the icon to stay where you want it.

  • How to get Mac OS hard drive to appear on desktop

    I have a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard with a partition to run a Windows OS through Boot Camp. After a repair for physical damage to the screen, the hard drive partition for the Mac partition of the OS drive does not show up on the desktop. How would I get the hard drive icon to appear on the desktop

    Boot from OS X on another drive (external if you have made a clone) or your OS X DVD - and repair the Mac HFS partition. Or see if you can access it. If Disk Utility won't, and even if it does, I'd invest in Disk Warrior.
    http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/harddrives/topic4557.html#d10aug2010

  • What are all the hard drive icons on my desktop from app installations?

    Most of the apps I have installed leave a new hard drive icon on my desktop, like these. Obviously the Macintosh HD is an good one to keep, but the others just keep accumulating and I find that to be a problem.
    What are these?
    What purpose do they serve?
    Can I delete them?
    If no delete, can I hide them?
    Thanks

    1. Mounted disk images.
    2. They contain the software or its installer. The dmg format doesn't require separately storing the decompressed version of the data on the computer.
    3. Yes.
    (116534)

  • Second user can't see hard drive icons on her desktop

    I added my wife also as an administator, but she can't see the hard drive icons on her desktop. Not even the Macintosh HD icon. Hard drives are connected thru USB.
    Sergio

    To show your hard disk icons on the Desktop, open Finder > Preferences > General and mark “Hard disks” and “External disks”. Your hard disks icons will show on the Desktop

  • How to show hard drive icon on my desktop on iOS x

    I'm using macbook pro and have iOS x. I want to have my hard drive icon appear on my desktop. Currently, it is not showing up. I would appreciate for an how to instruction.

    Usually if you have Finder preferences set to Show (these items) Hard Drives,
    on the Desktop, the icon of the computer's internal hard disk drive will appear
    on the desktop in Finder as one of the options shown.
    Click on Finder in main menu bar to see dropdown list; choose Preferences.
    (in your OS X version, this may look different)
    If you can't locate Finder menu that way, with other windows open, you can
    click on the Finder (face icon) in the Dock, then the main menu will be Finder.
    The current Mac OS X Mavericks is version 10.9.2.
    The iOS does not run on these; only on iDevices.
    Good luck & happy computing!
    edited to add/fix image

  • Why isn't there a hard drive icon on my desktop anymore?

    I followed someone's advice to replace my mother's ownership of my macbook pro with mine, which worked, but now there's no hard drive icon, so where so I put the files that I saved on a thumb drive to put back on after the transition??

    Choose Preferences from the Finder menu, click on the General tab, and check the box for it.
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  • How to exculde the second hard drive backup from time machine of lion os

    My Mac Pro 2010 mid version is using Mac Lion OS, and I have installed three internal hard drives (two 3T hard drives for storage one 2T hard drive for time machine hard drive). When I start to run the time machine to backup the system hard drive, the time machine will include those internal hard drives automatically, and it stop backup and claim time machine is lack of storage space. Of course I know it is not big enough to backup those extra hard drive. However, I just only need to backup the system drive only, but I cannot locate any setting related how to exclude other internal hard drive in time machine. So I still cannot backup my system drive yet.   

    See:
    http://pondini.org/TM/10.html
    10.  Can I exclude things from Time Machine backups?

  • Two hard drive icons on my desktop, would like to have only one...

    Hello  everyone, I recently got a PowerMac G5 (I think it's a 2.3 GHz). It came with a hard drive inserted 'Untitled', which came from my old 1.6 GHz G5. On the desktop though, I get two hard drive icons, my main start up drive called 'Untitled', and another one called 'Spare'. I was told that my G5 has only one drive inserted 'Untitled', so I'm trying to either get rid of 'Spare', or merge it somehow into 'Untitled'. Under the Volumes folder, I was not really able to get rid of it, is this something to do with Disk Utility?
    BDAqua - under Get Info, when I was on Leopard, I tried changing a User Permissions category called 'Everybody' from Read Only to Read and Write. Upon restart two days later, Leopard would not start up (loads of writing on the screen, with the Mac power button, asking me to restart). To cut a long story, I am now back on Tiger lol (Leopard issues for another discussion lol), so now I dare not play with anything which says Read Only, especially when it's probably not even necessary. I am writing this from the library, so don't know what exactly it says in Get Info - User Permissions for either drive at the moment. If this is relevant, I can have a look later and post back, I'll also verify permissions in Disk Utility for both drives, but I think they are fine. Actually, when I was on Leopard, my 'Untitled' drive took ages to verify permissions, and always loads of writing appeared! Now that I'm on Tiger, the other day when I verified Disk Permissions, it was quick and fine!
    Thank you
    In the screen shots, 'Untitled' is model ST31, 'Spare' is model WDC

    Hi BDAqua, sorry I should have just opened it in the first place! I don't know why that man told me there was only one hard drive inside, perhaps a misunderstanding.
    It seems that there are actually two hard drives inside, one in A, and one in B (see photo)! So, if this is the case, I don't have a problem with the two hard drive icons.
    I guess if a G5 shows two hard drives on the desktop, then there's two hard drives in the machine!
    Thanks for helping anyway.

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