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I restarted my iMac and I have it set to show Hard Disks on the desktop. When it restarted, it is now showing 2 hard drives on the desktop and also in About this Mac. They are both showing the same storage capacity. I have never had this happen before and was wondering what in the heck is happening here. Does anyone have any ideas?
 

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Wait, this is inside Catalina subforum, so I guess you are running Catalina.

Therefore, I assume that what you are seeing is normal. Starting from Catalina, Mac OS creates two volumes, one for system files, which is read only, and other for everything else.
 
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Taz Mangus

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I restarted my iMac and I have it set to show Hard Disks on the desktop. When it restarted, it is now showing 2 hard drives on the desktop and also in About this Mac. They are both showing the same storage capacity. I have never had this happen before and was wondering what in the heck is happening here. Does anyone have any ideas?

Open Disk Utility, select View->Show All Devices, post a picture showing the info.
 

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Open Disk Utility, select View->Show All Devices, post a picture showing the info.

Here is what it is showing:

The Mac and Macinstosh HD Data were the ones that were originally on there. The Macintosh HD is the one that showed up after the restart.

Edit: This is also a new iMac that already had Catalina installed on it and I set it up as new.
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Select Container disk1 and post a picture showing the info.

Here is what it shows:

Also, if I do click on the Macintosh HD drive in disk utility it has a finder icon next to it like seen below the first picture here

Edit: Also, on the Macintosh HD drive it is grayed out for "Erase/Restore/Mount".

Thank you for the help here.


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Really weird but in finder I clicked inside the Mac HD there were a couple of folders in there but they were empty. I decided to eject the Mac Drive and its no longer there and everything appears to be working good. Thank you again for the assistance.
 
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