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.

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Thanks.

I am not sure how the OS puts the hard drive icon onto the desktop. But, one thing you could do is to peak inside the /Volumes directory to see what is listed there in regards to your hard drive. To do that, start the terminal app from the utilities folder. Then, copy and paste this command into the terminal window:
ls -al /Volumes (followed by a return)
Then, please copy and paste the results into another post.
The results that I get are:
drwxrwxrwt 4 root admin 136 Nov 24 19:32 .
drwxrwxr-t 41 root admin 1496 Nov 15 18:50 ..
-rw-rw-rw- 1 rich admin 6148 Nov 24 19:32 .DS_Store
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Nov 15 18:51 eMac Hard Drive -> /
where eMac Hard Drive is the name for my hard drive. If your results do not look similar, perhaps there is a problem that can be fixed here.
Rich
EMAC G4 1.0 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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John Carden <[email protected]>

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