I did an install of catalina onto my Mac Mini hard drive from an external Hard Drive using MacOS Catalina App

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I did an install of catalina onto my Mac Mini hard drive from an external Hard Drive using MacOS Catalina App

I did an install of catalina onto my Mac Mini hard drive from an external Hard

Drive from the downloaded Catalina app (8.4GB) and it seemed to install ok and then sreen went black with spinning good wheel (with spokes) but its been 2.5 hours and there's no change? I'm tempted to shut down and restart to see whats happening. Everything is backed up so I'm ok in that reguard.

External USB Drive has Mojave for 32 bit apps

500 GB HD, 16 GB RAM, Late 2012 model

Mac mini, OS X 10.11

Posted on Oct 10, 2020 11:23 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 11, 2020 5:44 AM in response to Richard Farwell1

After the good wheel sopped spinning the MacOS Catalina was installed on my internal hard drive. However it now has 3 icons; Macintosh Hardrive, Macintosh Hardeive (data) & Macintosh Hardrive (data). After a couple of restarts the icon disappeared completely. I then reinstalled MacOs Catalina, it went faster this time but icons for Macintosh Hardrive are still missing but it is mounted. FRUSTRATING!

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Oct 11, 2020 7:07 AM in response to Richard Farwell1

Installation of Catalina feature changes - it has a write Only container called Macintosh HD - Data and Macintosh HD. The Macintosh HD are protected System files and the Macintosh HD - Data are where user files are kept. This is totally normal

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Oct 12, 2020 2:41 AM in response to Richard Farwell1

To really see ALL Volumes, Open Terminal >> " diskutil list " Note, there is a single space between Diskutil and list. Tell us want the output says or better still give us a screen shot.

Or try Open Disk Utilities and give us a screen shot.

Why must the icon(s) in question be on the desktop? If you explain what purpose it serves?

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