Sytem is gone?

[basslik]

Hi everyone, I partitioned my system drive into two partitions and did a clean install of Snow Leopard, but neither shows up on the desk top?, my other external drives are showing but not my system drive. I went to utilities then devices on the left and dragged the system drive to the desk top and it disappeared in a cloud of smoke?, How do I get it back, better yet , how do I get it to the desk top?, thank you

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Finder > Preferences >> General >>> Show these items on the Desktop

Finder > Preferences >> Sidebar



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[gameface]

maybe Finder menu / preference / click hard disks?

 

[basslik]

You folks are to cool, thanks for your help. The thing is I'm running Pro Tools and it wants me to drag the drives to the privacy page so it will not index the drives.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

You folks are to cool, thanks for your help. The thing is I'm running Pro Tools and it wants me to drag the drives to the privacy page so it will not index the drives.

No dragging needed: http://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=4177

 

[basslik]

No dragging needed: http://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=4177

Dragging is needed in the privacy page part.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Dragging is needed in the privacy page part.

Not if you talk about System Preferences > Spotlight >> Privacy.
The article I linked to even has screen captures of it.

And here is my example:

Or are you talking about some other preferences dialog?

 

[basslik]

yea there you go, but according to this youtube clip he says to drag it to the privacy part so it won''t index. Thank you very much for spending helping me out, and have a great weekend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LINM1EvvTxM&p=5FEC1AEC94DB22D6

 

[simsaladimbamba]

yea there you go, but according to this youtube clip he says to drag it to the privacy part so it won''t index. Thank you very much for spending helping me out, and have a great weekend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LINM1EvvTxM&p=5FEC1AEC94DB22D6

But dragging is not the only way to do this, he just did it in the video as it was his preferred method and the HDDs were shown on the Desktop.
Btw, the Sidebar in Finder is only a place to put shortcuts (Mac OS X calls them "aliases") into, thus dragging something off it (now not so easy with 10.6.7), will just delete the alias, but not move the data from one place to another or can be used in drag and drop manoeuvres.

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[basslik]

But dragging is not the only way to do this, he just did it in the video as it was his preferred method and the HDDs were shown on the Desktop.
Btw, the Sidebar in Finder is only a place to put shortcuts (Mac OS X calls them "aliases") into, thus dragging something off it (now not so easy with 10.6.7), will just delete the alias, but not move the data from one place to another or can be used in drag and drop manoeuvres.

Maybe this can help you navigating Mac OS X with more ease: Helpful Information for Any Mac User by GGJstudios

Thank you bud for all the help.