'Disk Utility' showing 2 HDs...?

Hi

The second item you mention is the make, & size, of your actual HDD. Macintosh HD (should be indented) is the name of the partition so, yes, both should be there. I presume the, indented, partition that's at the top is the startup disk, but I could be mistaken.

Steve

Hi Robert

The top level is your physical drive. The lower level is your logical partition, or volume. If you had more than one partition on your drive, the scheme would make more sense visually. For a one-partition system, it usually doesn't matter which level you click on when you run disk utility features (ie, you can run Repair Permissions and Verify Disk with either level highlighted), except that the "Partition" tab will only appear when you highlight the top level.

Matt

Hi Robert,

Steve is basically correct. The upper icon represents the entire disk and the lower, indented icon is the "volume". So Macintosh HD is your "volume".

Note that 149.1 GB LaCie GroupSA is a "hard disk drive" and there are 2 volumes on this disk because it is "partitioned".

Normally when running "Verify" or "Repair Disk" or "Repair Permissions" you would want to choose the volume.

Refer to what Disk Utility tells you before you choose, "Select a disk, volume or image."

Images like "zlock.dmg appear below the divider:



Hope this helps.



-mj
macjack@gmail.com

Aha Matt, I didn't see you there till I posted! Busy uploading images and such 😉



-mj
macjack@gmail.com

Glad to have helped.