Mac OS X boot disk is 'greyed out'

Mac OS X boot disk is 'greyed out' I have recently performed a fresh install of Snow Leopard on a MacBook. Everything seems to be working well with one exception - the hard drive icon does not open a window when clicked, and appears 'greyed out' in the Finder:
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Guest [Entry]

"A few ideas to start with:

If you haven't already, restart the computer.
Unmount and remount the volume in Disk Utility.
Repair the volume in Disk Utility
Check /Volumes to see if it is mounted at all. You can get to /Volumes using the Go to Folder… dialog (⇧⌘G in the Finder).
Check the system log just after starting up the computer to see if any errors occur mounting the volume.

This is not the startup disk, right? Is it a partition on the same physical disk?"

Guest [Entry]

"See this answer at AskDifferent: apple.stackexchange.com/a/101083

The partition is hidden. Make it visible again:

sudo chflags nohidden /Volumes/*MY_PARTITION*"