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Startup Drive Indicator


EricW

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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!

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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.

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  • 9 months later...
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.

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