Missing internal drive icon

[Kokorit Charji]

Alas, this really hurt!

when missing the hard drive icon in your PC, you can try the following tips,
if the drive is still not showing up, then to address that issue:

1: By attempting to connect to other machines, using other cables and ports on the Mac’s, other Mac’s and PC’s depending upon the format of the drive.

Drives, partitions, formatting w/Mac’s + PC’s

2: If it’s port powered, to use a powered USB hub as Apple is cutting off devices that are drawing too much power

3: If all those attempts fail and the drive has no encryption (Filevault), to install Data Rescue (free trial) to see if it see’s the drive, if so then to purchase the software ($100) and send the recovered data to another external hard drive large enough to handle it. (formatted GUID and OS X Extended Journaled in Disk Utility)

4: Use the local services of a professional computer repair service, there might be a Linux geek there that knows a few tricks.

5: If the drive still doesn’t show up, it might be a electronic issue of the enclosure/port interfaces, the internal drive can be removed and a SATA to USB adapter cable used

6: Last if the internal hard drive itself is mechanically dead, then the “4 figures” drive Drive Savers type dissection is certainly a option if the data on the drive is not encrypted (FileVault)