startup disk

Hi, The windows bootcamp partition doesnt appear in the startup disk. I can still boot from holding ALT at startup can anyone help me???? Many thanks in advance.

Hey folks, Last night I was running Onyx to perform some maintenance, and the program recognized a problem and told me the startup disk needs repair. I booted up from my OSX install disk, repaired the volume, everything was fine and dandy. Then I booted up from my startup disk and my macbook...

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

My hard drive seems to have died, it takes ages to boot and just continually says 'starting mac osx' ran repair via disk utility and i get the 'invalid key length' error (iv'e looked around, thats a bad error!) Anyway to repair this without buying diskwarrior? If i reinstall over the...

Hi all. this is my first time here and im in desperate need of help. I have a Powerbook (900mhz) which cannot start due to the fact that it cannot "see" the startup disk. One minute its on sleep - next minute when i wake it up, first it shows the grey semi-transparent box with different...

I had to re-partition my startup disk so I used to Disk Utility to make an image of it before partitioning. I have now re-partitioned and wish to copy all the files back on. I have now run into two problems. (1) The restore feature in Disk Utility does not work. The "Destination" field is always...

i keep getting a message on my laptop telling me that my startup disk is almost full and that i need to delete some files. what files do i need to delete? i'm running 10.3.9 and there is about 30 gigs of free space on my hard drive and when i check start up disk in system prefs the start up disk...

I have lloked everywhere, trying to understand why my iMac still won't startup with the CD install of MAC OS X Panther. As a few people said (but did'nt find any answer) I can not choose my CD as the startup disk. Why ? How could I install my MacOs X if I am not able to start my installation...

If I'm in OS 10.3 and I use the regular "startup disk" application and choose to boot up in OS 9.2.2 at the next restart, the computer restarts to a grey screen and does nothing. If I'm in OS 9.2.2 and open the "startup disk" application, the entire computer freezes before the application even...

Just wondering if there is a way to use my G5 Software Install Disks to install Tiger on my G4 Powerbook...I could have sworn I was able to do it before, but with these disks I get a software cannot be installed error.... Is there a way around this? Thanks in advance... :confused:

Hi everyone, just copying the folders "System", "Users", "Library" and "Documents" from the current startup disk to another disk doesn't make that disk a second startup disk, right? Anyway, that disk isn't shown in the System Preferences as a valid system disk. How can I frequently make a...

Hi, I have a G4 Quicksilver and have been booting into OS 9 for about a year now as on of the programs I use only works with 9. Today, I got the latest upgrade for this program that works with OS X. So I Went into my Preferences and changed the start-up disk from the Mac OS 9 system folder to...

I a working on a iMac that was brought in, when it came in it would not detect any bootable OS on the Hard drive, so I put in my OS X BootCD and after it booted it read the hard drive fine. I opened Sys pref and went to start up disk, it found 10.0.3 and 9.2.2 as bootable OS's on the disk. I...

Don't Use iPod As A Startup Disk (Here's why) From Applelinks; Apple actually told why the iPod shouldn't be used as a startup disk way back when the first iPods came out: you'll fry the disk. The iPod micro-disk isn't designed to take the heavy-duty use that a startup disk gets, and will...

I downloaded the OSX version of DiskWarrior (v3) just in case I ever have any problems in the future. I have installed the program but I'd like to have a boot-able copy on CD in case one day my startup disc won't start. I tried to copy the DiskWarrior Mounted Disc Image to a blank CD but...

The Startup Disk selection in System Pref keeps changing back to OS 9.2.2 from OS 10.0.4 (even when its locked) every time you quit System Prefs or restart the computer. Has anyone seen this before.

Hello there, It would be nice to rename my harddisk from "Macintosh HD" into something more sexy. Can I just rename it or will I get myself into all sorts of trouble? Jan

I have X.2 and 9.2 on two different partitions. After booting to OS X, I change the startup disk to 9.2. But when I restart the computer, I see the happy mac and then a blank screen and then OS X startsup. What is up with my system? Thank you

I have a problem with trying to make a startup disk.... basically I don't know how to do it. Under OS-9 it was easy. Under OS-X Toast does not display any options like "make disk bootable" when I burn a CD. I am trying to repair my hard disk with Norton and it advises me that there is a...