USB drive icons missing

When I plug a USB flash drive into my MacBook Air hte only way O ca access it is through the find function. The icon for the flash drive does not appear on the desktop. This is a recent dvelopment and I cannot think of anything I did to start his condition.
Any suggestions?
MacBook Air
OSX 10.7.5

GOTO > Finder.....PREFERNCES......click on the GENERAL tab, the click the box marked HARD DISKS and also the box marked EXTERNAL DISKS

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I know that my Apple Mobile Device USB Driver is missing. It won´t reinstall or update the software. Where can I get the software so I can synch my Ipod nano again?

I know that my Apple Mobile Device USB Driver is missing.When i try to reinstall it in the device manager it says that one of the installers is unable to reinstall the software. I don´t know where to look for the software to get the driver going again, so please help if you´ve got any solutions to my problem. I´ve spent hours and hours looking in the internet but i couldnt find anything helpful. PLEASE HELP
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You need to completely uninstall iTunes from your computer and then download and install it again.
You do know that Microsoft has a web site, right?

ITunes doesn't recognize iPhone and Apple Mobile Device USB Driver is missing

Hi. iTunes does not recognize my iPhone when I connect it to my PC via USB. I found iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows and went through the listed steps to diagnose the problem. The problem seems to be the Apple Mobile Device USB Driver. It is not listed in Device Manager and it does not seem to be installed on my PC. I followed directions for "If the Apple Mobile Device USB Driver is not listed" and I was not able to find anything. In that case there are no further steps that you can take listed on iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes. I then uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes and other software components (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1923) three times but each time Apple Mobile Device USB Drive was missing. If anyone can advise me I would greatly appreciate it.
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See also Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates.
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Desktop drive icon missing for just one of several USB external drives

I have a Mac Mini running OS 10.8.2 Server. There are 12 Seagate Flex USB drives (attached through two USB 2.0 powered hubs) and 3 Western Digital Firewire drives, and until last week all functioned absolutely normally. Last week the desktop icon for one (just one!) of the Firewire drives dissappeared, but the drive is still mounted in /Volumes. It is even correctly shared and can be remotelly accessed on another Mini and a MacBook. Disk Utility shows that it is mounted, and the Repair Disk function unmounts, checks, reports all is well and remounts. I'm just missing the icon in Finder. Where is it?
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I am having the exact issue with both 10.8.5 and 10.9.1 servers.
The server is doing well and then one day without notice or failure the desktop icon for the shared volume is gone. The share remains mounted and available to users. The volume is not showing damaged or any other problem. The volume can be found in terminal and by doing a finder go to the /Volumes area and all is there. But, even though disk utility shows it mounted and all else is good, Server app then starts to loose the volume for maintenance and propogation etc, it still shares but can't be seen or touched by GUI's.
I also was easily able to get back all through Backups that were up to date so no data loss, but this is quite disconcerting.
One possible variable is that both that I have seen are software RAIDs (Disk Utility raids).
If anyone has any thoughts I appreciate it.
The two servers are Mac Pro 2012 4 core 10.8.5 server and Mac Pro 2008 early 4 core 10.9.1 server.
Thanks MDB

Blackberry drive icons missing on PC

I'm new to this BB stuff, an old Treo user. I use my Sprint 8330 with two computers. The one at work I consider my primary that I usually sync from and the second at home secondary that I generally sync to. When I hook the curve up to either I hear 2 of the "USB hookup sounds". I assume one is for the phone and the other the media card in it. However the PC at the office shows no icons corresponding to the phone and the one at home shows 1. The one at home apparently represents the media card, because if I take the card out of the phone and hook it up to the PC, I get both USB tones and though the drive icons still shows up, I get the message to please put a disc in.
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BTW, I think that BB hides the letter for the device memory to keep us from messing with system files and really screwing things up. Their software can install and remove things from it, but it keeps dummies like me from deleting something harder to fix. Probably not a bad idea, really.

Can't see my USB drive icon

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http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/desktops-and-all-in-ones/ideacentre-b-series-all-in-ones/ideacentre-b540
this all the drivers from lenovo
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SYSTEM
CurrentControlSet
Control
Class
{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
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LowerFilters.bak
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Blu Ray drive icon missing

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http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/desktops-and-all-in-ones/ideacentre-b-series-all-in-ones/ideacentre-b540
this all the drivers from lenovo
1. Close all open programs
2. Click on Start, Run, and type REGEDIT and press Enter
3. Click on the plus signs (+) next to the following folders:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SYSTEM
CurrentControlSet
Control
Class
{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
4. This folder is the DVD/CD-ROM Drive Class Description in the registry. Look for any of the following names in the right hand column.
UpperFilters
LowerFilters
UpperFilters.bak
LowerFilters.bak
5. If any of the above keys shown in step 4 are listed, right-click on them and choose Delete
6. After deleting the keys, close the Registry Editor
7. Reboot your computer
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Apple mobile device USB driver is missing and cannot be installed

Hi,
My iPod nano (6th gen) is not recognised by iTunes but is recognised by Windows sometimes (once in 2-3 attempts).
Every time I connect my iPod to my laptop, a window pops up saying "an iPod is detected but could not be identified properly...".
I looked through apple support page and narrowed down the cause to the driver.
Apple mobile device USB driver does not show up in Device Manager.
However iPod does show up under Portable Devices as a camera when iPod is recognised by Windows.
I tried reinstalling Apple Mobile Device USB Driver as it was shown in the support page (right click on iPod in Device Manager>update driver software>...).
This did not work (gave me an error saying "the folder you specified doesn't contain a compatible software driver for your device...".
So I tried another method I found online; extract iTunes installer (itunes6464setup.exe), extract AppleMobileDeviceSupport6464.msi in it, and use the files in it to update driver.
This gave me the same error.
It seems that a Windows driver is installed for my iPod (WPD FileSystem Volume Driver); when I opt for "search automatically" in Uptade driver software, this driver shows up with the message "the best driver for your device is already installed".
Also, my iPod is shown in Devices and Printers with an exclamation mark (when I connect my iPod to my laptop, the exclamation mark shows up only after I click OK on the message window "an iPod is detected but could not be identified properly...")
Troubleshoot showed "Windows is uninstalling this device (Code 21)".
I'd appreciate it if someone could help with the situation.
I'm using Windows 8.1, iTunes 12.1 for Windows 64bit, and iPod nano 6th gen.
I haven't connected my iPod to my laptop for a long while, but I recall connecting an iPhone to my laptop a while ago and it was recognised just fine.
After that I updated my Windows from 8 to 8.1, but I don't think it has anything to do with the problem as my iPod wasn't recognised by iTunes before and after the update.
Thank you in advance!

For general advice see Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates.
The steps in the second box are a guide to removing everything related to iTunes and then rebuilding it which is often a good starting point unless the symptoms indicate a more specific approach. Review the other boxes and the list of support documents further down the page in case one of them applies.
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which is a 64-bit installer for the 32-bit version of the core application, similar to previous 64-bit releases. Or roll back to the previous build:
iTunes 12.0.1.26 for Windows (32-bit) - iTunesSetup.exe (2014-10-16)
iTunes 12.0.1.26 for Windows (64-bit) - iTunes64Setup.exe (2014-10-16)
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Hard Drive icon missing - Desktop folders won't open - Need Help!

I need help! I have a 400 MHz PowerPC G4 with 768 MB SDRAM, no DVD drive - was running OS X 10.3.9 quite happily. We became owners of a new iPod Nano - so we had to upgrade to 10.4.
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Installed 10.4 using a FireWire Hard Drive - installed software updates to 10.4.11 - ran Disk Utility - ran MacJanitor - ran DoktorKleaner - everything was working well.
Rebooted and the Hard Drive Icon had disappeared from desktop. Folders on desktop have all lumped together in the top right hand corner of the screen, and refuse to open.
Only programs in the dock still work - clicking on the Finder icon only gives the option to hide. New Finder Window does not work. Programs can be found in Spotlight, but if they're not in the dock they won't open. Trash won't open or empty.
I attempted to reinstall Mac OS X using FireWire, but now the Hard Drive is full and is telling me it will erase and reinstall. I need to save files off this computer now (Sadly no backup exists) before my wife readies divorce papers.
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Whenever something starts going wrong with the computer I suggest you first boot from the installer disk, select language if applicable, choose utilities, run Disk Utility and verify (and repair if necessary) the drive. Then repair the permissions on your computer. You can also repair permissions from DU on your main drive while booted, but to properly verify and repair your drive you have to run it from a drive other than the boot drive.
[Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214]
[Using Disk Utility in Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302672]
[Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751]
From BDaqua (couldn't have said it better):
"Try Disk Utility
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2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
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Then Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes."
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Was this a retail installer disc that you used to do the upgrade?
How much free space do you have on the computer?
Did you use the [PPC Combo updater|http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx10411comboupdateppc.html] to get to 10.4.11?
Did you do all these updates in one single session or restart and check your computer had accepted them okay between each update? It is critical to repair permissions before and after each update otherwise the installers won't install fully and you end up with a mix of versions.
You can set the Finder Preferences, general, to display a hard drive icon, but it sounds like your problems are going beyond that?
You can also try trashing your Users -> home folder -> Library -> Preferences -> com.apple.finder.plist file and see if that clears up the issue. That sets the Finder preferences and if it gets corrupted it will cause Finder problems.

USB drive installation missing in bootcamp

I have a macbook pro mid-2010, currently up to date in all firmware. My disk drive's ability to burn dvd's is apparently shot, so the only alternative to install windows is via usb drive, however that option in bootcamp doesn't even exist. Someone please tell me how to fix this.
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HARD DRIVE ICON MISSING IN ACTION

I have been unable to locate a solution to my current problem. Recently I was attempting to use the disc utility application to erase an external 160GB Maxtor drive and accidentally erased on of my existing internal HD icons from my desktop. I am now unable to find or access the "missing" HD anywhere. However, I do have use of the other HD which uses the Jaguary 10.3.9 OS.
Basically the "missing" drive was initially a clone of main drive as was programmed by Apple when I purchased back in 2004. However, I had upgraded to Mac OS X Tiger along with Final Cut Studio and the included applications of Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Compressor, and DVD Studio Pro. Thankfully, I did not have any saved projects, music or documents that I would need to worry about recovering. Also, I should have all of the install application discs at home as I would assume that I will need to use them at some point. If possible, in attempting to correct this problem I would rather not jeopardize the info that is on the remaining "good" drive. Do you have any suggestions regarding starting from scratch on the "bad" hard drive? Obviously, I am a "rookie" at this but I would appreciate any assistance that you may have to offer in order to get this hard drive back to the point that it was at prior to my big "mistake"!!!
The drives are both internal as shown by info from my System Profiler that I've copied/pasted below:
ATA Bus:
Name: k2-sata
Maxtor 6Y250M0:
Capacity: 233.76 GB
Model: Maxtor 6Y250M0
Revision: YAR51FW0
Serial Number: Y634JGZE
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Protocol: ATA
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Serial ATA
bay_name: A (upper)
OS9 Drivers: No
MACINTOSH HD:
Capacity: 233.64 GB
Available: 80.28 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s3
Mount Point: /
ATA Bus:
Name: k2-sata
Maxtor 6Y250M0:
Capacity: 233.76 GB
Model: Maxtor 6Y250M0
Revision: YAR51FW0
Serial Number: Y634JJ6E
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk1
Protocol: ATA
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Serial ATA
OS9 Drivers: No
bay_name: B (lower)
The high-lighted portion is the problem drive and as far as I can tell does not indicate the drive specifically by name in the way the other drive does (MACINTOSH HD). I believe the problem happend while I was attempting to use Disk Utility to erase an external 160GB Maxtor drive by zeroing all data on this drive. However, I inadvertantly selected an internal Maxtor drive by mistake and almost immediately the internal HD Icon disappeared from my desktop. Also, I definitely ejected/unmounted the external drive in the proper manner. Finally, I have never opened my tower to service the G5 so I wouldn't think that there would be a loose or unseated connection. I have not yet tried to boot the Mac to my Tiger installer disc or use the version of Disk Utility on that disc to reformat the drive. Assuming that I start this process and the missing drive does appear in this version, would you be able to either provide or otherwise direct me with a step-by-step guide (the dummy version) as I will admit that I am not the most computer literate person in the world? Also, what might my next step be if the missing drive does not appear in the Tiger version of Disk Utility?
Thank you in advance for any help or guidance you may have to offer! I also appreciate your taking time out of your day to try and solve this issue.
Johnny
Thanks again!

Here's the answer to this question as provided by EWW in another Discussion Forum from mid-September 2007.
Re: HD ICON DISAPPEARED FROM BOTH DESKTOP & DISK UTILITY
Okay, so you have two identical 250GB Maxtor internal drives, and both drive mechanisms are recognized by System Profiler — but the second one now has no volume(s) on it. The first one contains a single volume called Macintosh HD, about which some information is reported under its name. It appears that both drives are connected satisfactorily to the logic board, so cabling and connections aren't at fault. The external drive isn't involved either, and if it's still connected I suggest disconnecting it before doing anything further, just so it won't get mixed up in the fray.
A volume is not the drive itself; it's a data storage structure on the drive that you create and name when you format and partition the drive. There can be just one volume on a drive, or more than one. If you create two or more partitions, each partition is a volume, and appears as a separate disk icon on the desktop after formatting is done.
In the left panel of Tiger's Disk Utility, what I hope you see is two different Maxtor drive mechanisms listed on separate lines (manufacturer's name and product number appears in these lines) and indented under one of them, the volume called Macintosh HD. There is probably nothing under the other drive mechanism. Select that mechanism. Check its S.M.A.R.T. status near the bottom of the DU window. Is it "Verified"?
If so, these frequently-posted instructions from Discussions regular Cornelius should enable you to format the disk again and get it mounted on the desktop for use. Then you'll have to reinstall whatever you need on it.
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has external hard disks have own icon, I would to have one for pendrives.... because I use a lot of, and I have to guest what is a mounted disk image or what is a pendrive.

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