Desperately Need Help Asap

[Sambo110]

HELP.
I accidently dragged my hard drive to the recycle bin and it ejected, and i have no idea how to get it back! Luckily it was only my games hard rive, but i still want to get it back asap. PLEASE HELP.

 

[schweb]

I don't believe you can get it back.

 

[Sambo110]

Are you being serious? Why would Apple let you be able to do it then??? ARRR

 

[dtravis7]

External or Internal drive?

 

[christm]

if its external it should have just ejected it. so unplug it and plug it back in. if its internal i think that a lot more serious.

 

[dtravis7]

You can not throw out the boot drive. OSX will not allow it. Windows will not either. Like Christm said, if it's external, you ejected it. Turn it off and back on or unplug the cable and plug it back. It will come back.


If you use the disk utility and erase it, then it might be a different story!

 

[Sambo110]

Ok. It is inside my mac. I accidently dragged the hard drive picture on my desktop to the recycle bin. How do i get it back?

 

[dtravis7]

What Mac do you own? Which version of OSX?

Open Utilities, Disk Utility and see if the drive shows up there.

And have you tried a reboot?

 

[Sambo110]

I have an eMac. I just chose iMac because i had to have a prefix. I did reboot it and nothing happened.

 

[Sambo110]

Oh, It is in disc utility now, but as a blank page. I clicked repair and it said no repairs were necessary and it is still a page. Should i click restore?

 

[dtravis7]

I have an eMac. I just chose iMac because i had to have a prefix. I did reboot it and nothing happened.

Is it running OSX? If so did you open Disk Utility in Applications/Utilities?

 

[Sambo110]

Yeah i said its in disc utility now. I am running 10.4.10, the latest one. Should i click restore??

 

[MacHeadCase]

Did you open Finder preferences to make sure the hard drive icon is ticked on and set to appear on your desktop? Maybe your dragging the icon to the trash disabled it.

 

[dtravis7]

Yeah i said its in disc utility now. I am running 10.4.10, the latest one. Should i click restore??

If you click on the drive, can you click on Mount at the top of Disk Utility? If so, click Mount.

 

[Sambo110]

It said unmount up top. I clicked unmount then mount but it still has the blank page, but no icon on my desktop. Should i just restore it?

 

[dtravis7]

Restore is to restore from a backup. So no. Did you try what MHC above suggested? Click on Finder, then Preferences and see if Hard Discs and the others are checked.

The Blank Screen you see is the First Aid screen.

 

[smurfy]

Did you open Finder preferences to make sure the hard drive icon is ticked on and set to appear on your desktop? Maybe your dragging the icon to the trash disabled it.

try this.

 

[Sambo110]

Yes i made sure it was all ticked. I am going to click restore anyway.

 

[Sambo110]

I tried everything. What can i do?

 

[dtravis7]

Good Luck. I told you what Restore is. On that blank screen did you try Verify Disk?

An EMac only has room for one internal drive. How do you have a game drive in there? Is it a partition on your main HDD?