How to remove duplicate hard drive icons on iMac?

My 2017 iMac running Catalina 10.15.7 is showing 2 hard drive icons with the same name. One seems to be a mirror? Is there a way to remove one of the icons?


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Original Title: Duplicate HD images?

iMac (2017 – 2020)

Posted on Dec 21, 2025 3:22 PM

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Dec 21, 2025 3:37 PM in response to wildpete

wildpete wrote:

My 2017 iMac running Catalina 10.15.7 is showing 2 hard drive icons with the same name. One seems to be a mirror? Is there a way to remove one of the icons?
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Original Title: Duplicate HD images?

Try booting in Safe Mode. Restart and hold down the Shift key until you see the login screen. Login and you should see Safe Mode in the menu bar. Do you still see the duplicates? To exit Safe Mode, simply shutdown and boot normally.

How to remove duplicate hard drive icons on iMac?

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