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Kipsley

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Nov 12, 2015
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Western Australia
Hey everyone. I'm running Mojave on my Mac Pro (early 2012) 5.1 machine.
I have three drives (all internal).
- 250 GB Seagate HDD. Bootable with latest Mojave on it.
- 250 GB SSD. Same as above.
- 1TB SSD. Same as above.

With all three drives in, how come only the 250 GB SSD is showing in the "Start-up Disk" option? The computer is also defaulting to this drive as the default start-up disk.
I need to change this as "Disk Utility" is telling me there is a corruption on this drive somewhere, where the other two drives have no issues. All I really want to do is to erase the 250 GB SSD and reclone it from one of the other drives, but first I need to get the machine to boot from one of the other drives.
 

Kipsley

macrumors member
Original poster
Nov 12, 2015
95
23
Western Australia
Ok. I now have 4 drives in. I managed to erase the data on the 250GB SSD. Now my computer has....
1 TB SSD as system disk running Mojave.
250 GB SSD as utility disk
1 TB HDD as Time Machine back up.
1 TB HDD that has my movie collection on it.

The 1 TB SSD with Mojave does not show up. system preferences > start-up disks.
It is seen if I boot up in recovery mode, and disk utility also sees it.
 

KeesMacPro

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Nov 7, 2019
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The 1 TB SSD with Mojave does not show up. system preferences > start-up disks.
It is seen if I boot up in recovery mode, and disk utility also sees it.


Could you open terminal enter: diskutil list
and post the screenshot?

Is Mojave installed natively or a patched version/ OC?
 
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