Desperately Need Help Asap

Well, i bought my eMac second hand and these are it's specs:
1.25 ghz
1 gig ram
2 X hard drives, 75.5 gb each
32mb graphics cards.
So what can i do now?

Wait, do you think that i do have 1 hard drive, just split into 2?

Ok, I bet it's one drive with 2 partitions. Did you try clicking on the partition that is not on the desktop and clicking verify? Is that option available in Disk Utility for that drive?

Ok i click verify and this is what happens:

Verifying volume “eMac Games HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume eMac Games HD appears to be OK.
Mounting Disk

1 HFS volume checked
Volume passed verification

But it still doesn't work.

That makes no sense. I am booting up my G3 tower which has partitions and will see what I can find and get back to you.

Do me a favor, Minimize the Dock and see if the icon is behind the dock and being hidden. I had that happen and it drove me NUTS!

It's not hiding behind there. I searched in spotlight and the hard drive didn't come up.

Also, if i unmount the games hard drive in disc utility, it gets grayed out but has the hard drive picture there.

http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-10833.html

see if anything there helps. I have to get some sleep/

Troll.

Does it say "restore to desktop"?

Ok, here is a picture. In the picture i have selected my lost hard drive, but it says it's mounted.

I have no idea how to get it on these forums.

Sambo110 said:

Ok, here is a picture. In the picture i have selected my lost hard drive, but it says it's mounted.

I have no idea how to get it on these forums.

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I tried throwing the 2nd partition in the trash here on my powermac G3 with Tiger. Went into Disk Utility and hit Mount and back it came. Don't know what is up on your end.

I keep having this feeling that it's there and just at the edge of the screen somewhere. Check very carefully around the edges all around the screen.

In Finder try going to the View and selecting Arrange by and select something. See if appears.

It can't be on the edge of the screen, cause i clicked lock to grid, so i can't move any of my desktop icons. Also, it says it's mounted, it's just a white page though.

Sambo110 said:

It can't be on the edge of the screen, cause i clicked lock to grid, so i can't move any of my desktop icons. Also, it says it's mounted, it's just a white page though.

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By White Page you mean like this? All OSX drives look like that unless you run Verify unless I am not understanding what you are saying.

No. I mean the icon that should be a hard drive is a little page. Here is a picture of it. Tell me if you want a bigger picture of the whole disc utility

Sambo110 said:

No. I mean the icon that should be a hard drive is a little page. Here is a picture of it. Tell me if you want a bigger picture of the whole disc utility

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Can you do the whole disk utility page? You can screen capture it by hitting APPLE-SHIFT-4 then tap the space bar and click the mouse. I want to see some info at the bottom. Be sure to have that Games drive highlighted.

Edit, Here is Disk Utility on my G3 Powermac with a Drive with 2 partitions. Both have the icon. Last night I drug the 2nd partition to the trash and mounted it again with Disk Utility.

Here is my whole screen.

Sambo110 said:

Here is my whole screen.

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There for sure is an issue. Check my 1st pic I sent you. Yours is blank for Available and Used and Number of Folders and Number of Files. Dragging the drive in the trash should have done nothing but un-mount it. I have tried it here a few times now and not an issue. Doing some more checking.

Edit, what comes up if you click on it and click the INFO button at the top of Disk Utility? Also click on Mount Point which shows Volumes/emac games HD and see if anything opens.

So.... Any ideas how to fix it?

Sambo110 said:

So.... Any ideas how to fix it?

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I added a couple of more lines to my post.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214

Read the section on using FSCK and see if you can run that on the drive. Otherwise I am out of ideas for now.