Dear Dave, how the heck do I copy the harddrive icon onto the taskbar of my mac?
I’m not exactly sure what you mean by the “taskbar” of your Mac OS X system, but there are two possibilities: either you’re talking about the Dock, which pops up on the bottom of your screen and offers shortcuts for launching applications, or you’re talking about the left side of your Finder windows where you have various icons already. I’ll answer both questions.
First off, to get your hard disk to show up as an icon on the Dock, you simply need to drag its icon from the Desktop onto the Dock itself. Of course, you might not have a disk icon, so in fact the first step is really to go into the Finder and choose Finder –> Preferences…, then select the “general” option:
You need to ensure that you’ve checked your hard disk choice so that the icon appears on your desktop. Now you can drag and drop that icon onto the Dock:
Once you’ve done that, the icon’s on the Dock and if you click and hold down the mouse on the disk icon itself, you’ll find that it pops up a nice hierarchical menu:
Cool, eh? 🙂
To add your hard disk to the Sidebar in a Finder window’s even easyer: click on Finder –> Preferences… then click on “sidebar” and choose Disks:
That’ll get you a hard disk icon on either or both places!
I am trying to use a storage device onto my imac but when I try to load the device it tells me to go into ‘My Computer’ and follow more instructions, but I dont know where the ‘My Computer’ icon is.
Woww this article helped me a lot… For some reason my Hard drive icon was not showing on my desktop, but now I fixed it. Thank you Dave!
The hard drive icon on my desktop (I’m running Mac x 10.4) moves from the top right corner and mixes in with the other files when it wakes up from sleep. How do I stop that?
Thanks
I am running Windows XP and I am wanting ti add an icon on my desktop for my email.How do I go about it??Thank You
Another thing that bugs me with the hard drive icon is that when you move it somewhere else on the desktop, it moves to the same spot it originally was in when you restart your computer. Why’s that?
Hey Dave is there anyway we can have the “Computer” icon show up on the desktop, and the Hardsisks mounted within this folder. Much like Windows ??
Coz I have too many partitions (3 Harddisks with almost 5-6 partitions on each disks)
This is freakin’ sweet. Much better and more useful than the icon on the desktop.
Thanks for posting this.