EricW Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Is there a way to quickly (and intuitively) discover which drive you're booted to *without* going through your list of drives and figuring out which one *can't* be ejected? Is there some kind of tool that I can download. Googling revealed nothing. (I had a problem last night where Super Duper booted me to my external drive while I was gone and it was sort of a royal PITA getting things back because I was unknowingly doing all my work on my firewire drive.) Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritinUSA Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Try this widget , it shows the amount of storage on the startup disk and names the startup disk... Storij Widget It looks like this (in the example wiggle is the name of the startup disk) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted April 3, 2008 Author Share Posted April 3, 2008 I'll give 'er a whirl. Thanks! (This is so annoying, I may learn how to code on the Mac if this doesn't work out. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wide45 Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 (edited) The volume your system is running on will be the one at the top right side of the desktop. If you boot to a different drive, the icons will change order, with the current system on top. Give the drives unique names, and icons. Apple says you can check this way; To determine which disk started up your Mac: Choose Apple menu > About This Mac, and look at the entry for Startup Disk. Edited April 4, 2008 by wide45 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted April 3, 2008 Author Share Posted April 3, 2008 Wow....how did I miss that one? Thanks Rich! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 The volume your system is running on will be the one at the top right side of the desktop.If you boot to a different drive, the icons will change order, with the current system on top. Give the drives unique names, and icons. Apple says you can check this way; To determine which disk started up your Mac: Choose Apple menu > About This Mac, and look at the entry for Startup Disk. There ye go. It's also not a bad to name your drives (or partitions) so that by just looking at them on the desktop you'll know who is who and who is where. be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Late to the party here, but yeah, all that's the ticket :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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