mac mini has renamed its hard drive

[ICE UK]

Hi,

can anyone advise?

I have a Mac Mini 2GHz Intel core duo and after downloading pac man and installing it the hard drive has been renamed to vvbb and appears on the desktop as a picture of an actual hard drive other that the icon that it used to show.

Whats up?

Cheers

 

[btbrossard]

I'd be a little confused as well.

Can you just name it back? To get your original icon back, get info on said drive and then highlight the icon and hit command+X to "cut" the icon. Should go back to the standard icon.

Hopefully nothing else happened to the drive.

 

[DewGuy1999]

What btbrossard said should get you back to good. Since it's been renamed to vvbb and the "v" key is right next to the "b" key is there's a good possibility that that you had the hard drive selected and accidentally hit the "v" and "b" keys renaming it, I can't explain the change in hard drive icon though.

 

[Giuly]

You mounted a disk image. It's not your hard drive. Right-click vvbb and click Eject, then it's gone.

This is how software is installed on a Mac. You mount a .dmg-file, it shows up as a disk where the files to install the software are located. Eject it and delete the dmg after installing, and everything is just as you're used to.