hotwheels 22
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Q: mac pro drives not listed in order in Disk Utility

i noticed in installing a fourth internal drive today that the drives are not listed in order, even though I do see a Bay listed at the bottom when i select on the drive. since the drives listed in Disk Utility show the manufacturer this can be a little confusing for me. Right now drives are listed from top to bottom as 3, 1, 2 4.

 

Is this an issue or is there a way to order them in the way they are in the computer 1 - 4?

 

thanks for any tips or advice on this. I tried a apple search under the heading here and didn't find much.

Posted on Jan 21, 2012 10:22 AM

by X423424X,Solvedanswer
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Anyway, don't i have to CLICK on the "computer drive name" to get to the partition tab? and doesn't that mean that I would have to click on all four of my drives since they are not listed in any order?

 

. . .

 

You follow?

 

No not really!

 

Click on the disk drives, the items that are not indented.  You will see the partition tab.  It should be obvious from the display which disk you have, i.e., by the names of the partiton volume(s) which are the names indented under their respective drives. 

 

Maybe it's too obvious to me but I really don't understand your problem here.  If you guessed the wrong drive simply click on another until you find the drive that needs partitioning/formatting.  You are trying to over analyze this.

Posted on Jan 21, 2012 2:53 PM

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    hotwheels 22 hotwheels 22 Jan 23, 2012 8:09 PM in response to FatMac>MacPro
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    Jan 23, 2012 8:09 PM in response to FatMac>MacPro

    man, i am really grateful for the help on this list.

     

    so, i am running paralells on the snow leopard boot drive. the xp boot camp partition (bay 1!) was my original foray to the mac, then the snow leopard drive (bay 3!) and I also installed a win 7 boot camp (bay 2) in case i need to run something natively.

     

    anyway, how do I read up on this coloring? very interested in this.

     

    thanks.

     

    - jon

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    FatMac>MacPro FatMac>MacPro Jan 24, 2012 6:10 AM in response to hotwheels 22
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    Jan 24, 2012 6:10 AM in response to hotwheels 22

    hotwheels 22 wrote:

     

    ...anyway, how do I read up on this coloring? very interested in this.

     

    thanks.

     

    - jon

    That part's easy. On the desktop, locate each of the partitions (they look like little hard disks). Single click on one, Get Info (File menu), and an Info box opens. Part way down is "Label:" with different colors that you can select. Pick one and the name for the that drive icon on the desktop will change to that color.

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    hotwheels 22 hotwheels 22 Jan 24, 2012 7:45 AM in response to FatMac>MacPro
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    Jan 24, 2012 7:45 AM in response to FatMac>MacPro

    very nice.

     

    thanks for all the help. regards.

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