Internal Hard Disk does not show in Startup Disk options

syrose · #1 January 1st, 2008, 12:21 PM

I have 2 internal Serial-ATA disks:
Both were checked (with Disk Utility and
DiskWarrior) and are OK.
But only one of the two disks shows
in the Startup Disk list in
System Preferences->Startup Disk.
Please I need assistance.
Sincerely,
Sally
PowerMac G5 / OS X (V.10.4.11)
3GB memory

cleal · #2 January 1st, 2008, 03:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syrose

I have 2 internal Serial-ATA disks:
Both were checked (with Disk Utility and
DiskWarrior) and are OK.
But only one of the two disks shows
in the Startup Disk list in
System Preferences->Startup Disk.

Both mount and are visible on the desktop or filesystem?

Both had OS X installed?

syrose · #3 January 1st, 2008, 11:26 PM

Both mount and are visible on the desktop or filesystem?
Both had OS X installed?

Dear Cleal,
Thank you for your prompt reply.
Both disks are visible on the desktop.
The second disk does not have OS X installed.
It is precisely what I would like to do: install OS X on the second disk
and optionally install imovie on the second disk as well.
I cannot, however 'startup' with the second (the non-visible) disk.
Can you please help?
Sincerely,
Sally

DeltaMac · #4 January 1st, 2008, 11:33 PM

Your 2nd hard drive won't show in Startup Disk unless a startup system is installed. If you boot to your OS X installer DVD, you can choose that 2nd drive as a destination disk to install OS X. After installing OS X, it will show in Startup Disk as a choice (assuming the drive is good).

syrose · #5 January 2nd, 2008, 01:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syrose

Both mount and are visible on the desktop or filesystem?
Both had OS X installed?

Dear Cleal,
Thank you for your prompt reply.
Both disks are visible on the desktop.
The second disk does not have OS X installed.
It is precisely what I would like to do: install OS X on the second disk
and optionally install imovie on the second disk as well.
I cannot, however 'startup' with the second (the non-visible) disk.
Can you please help?
Sincerely,
Sally

Thank you DeltaMac
Now both disks show.
Hopefully I'll manage to install imovie on the second disk.
Sincerely,
Sally

gits · #6 March 12th, 2008, 07:15 PM

Hi guys my problem is similar but slightly worse. I have recently used boot camp to create a partition and have "finally" after much trial and even more error installed XP on the new partition

However when I go into startup disk in systems preferences my Mac partition doesn't even appear it just shows "Network Startup" as the option and consequently always auto boots to XP unless I hold down the option key at the start - Does anyone know how I can get my Mac partition to show up again so I can select and can then automatically start in OSX rather than XP

Thanks

DeltaMac · #7 March 12th, 2008, 09:02 PM

Does your Mac boot partition show in the Startup Disk in the control panel while you are booted to Windows? You can select the Mac startup from there, too, you know.
The Boot Camp drivers setup for Windows installs a Startup Disk pane, and not just drivers.

gits · #8 March 13th, 2008, 06:02 AM

Not sure where that is in XP - I couldn't find "Startup Disk" in Control Panel in XP but went into a thing called Startup and REcovery under some other heading and it showed default operating system as XP in a drop down box and provided no other options - I also saw in another forum that XP didn't show up the mac partition but that that was a good thing because no nasty viruses could jump from one to the other

There was a "Startup" option on the Start menu in XP but it said empty when I scrolled over it - So presumably XP doesn't know the other partition exists

Still not sure how I get it to show up as an option though in OSX Startup Disk pane though