[hecateh]

Hi, just recently my external fw drive has stopped showing one of its partitions in the finder, it mounts ok and itunes still plays the mp3s on it, i just cant see it in the finder.

I have tried using disk utility to unmount it and remount it with no luck.

the drive is a maxtor 250gb one touch and the 2 partitions are FAT32 (so I can use them on my friends and my own windows machines)

The drive has been used on my g5 since I had it and this problem has arisen over the last few weeks, maybe since the update to 10.3.7 i cant be sure!

Anyone have any tips or something to try?

cheers, ken.

[JKT]

When you say it doesn't show in the Finder, do you mean just on the desktop or also in the Finder sidebar. Regardless, go to the Finder>Preferences and under the General and Sidebar sections, check that the Hard Disks etc options are selected for the items to be mounted.

[hecateh]

thanks for the tip, the partition in question doesnt show on the desktop either, the other partition shows on the desktop/sidebar of the finder. I made sure the hard disks option was ticked. No difference so far. I can get to it via the terminal also, its definately mounted but finder is ignoring it so it seems.


cheers, Ken.

[Macola]

Did you try deleting the .DS_Store files?