Drive Not Showing In Startup Disk

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Drive Not Showing In Startup Disk

I have re setup my MacBook Pro, all seems well apart from this little problem. My Mac OS X Partition or Windows Partition shows in startup Disk.

Both Operating Systems do startup fine though.

I have my disk partitioned like this

Free Space
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Windows 7
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Mac OS X

Its setup in this way so i can use TrueCypt for the Windows side.

Does anyone know how to correct this please?

You can use this link to view a screenshot
http://www.edugeek.net/attachments/forums/mac/9912d1302462528-drive-not-showing- startup-disk-screen-shot-2011-04-10-20.07.19.png

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=Apple Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Apr 10, 2011 12:23 PM

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TeenTitan

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Apr 10, 2011 1:10 PM in response to fn-gm

The picture your linking to can not be viewed without singing up for the forums you posted it in. Why not upload and link to the picture using a service like TinyPic or Image Shack.

Startup Disk should show the mac os x and windows partitions your computer can boot to.

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fn-gm Author

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Apr 10, 2011 1:15 PM in response to TeenTitan

Oops sorry about that.

This is the screenshot

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=358t3x0&s=7

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TeenTitan

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Apr 10, 2011 4:03 PM in response to fn-gm

ok so your windows drive, and your mac drive dose not show up in system preferences startup disk? I take it, you've tried restarting the computer? Have you tried a safeboot on your mac partition?

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fn-gm Author

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Apr 11, 2011 12:05 AM in response to TeenTitan

I did a reboot but i will try a SafeBoot when i get home from work.

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fn-gm Author

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Apr 11, 2011 1:37 PM in response to TeenTitan

Hi,

I have tried a SafeBoot and unfortunently it hasn't resolved the issue.

Do you have anymore thoughts please?

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TeenTitan

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Apr 11, 2011 5:59 PM in response to fn-gm

if you try to verify the disk, dose it report any errors? (open disk utility, click on the Macintosh HD, click on the repair tab, click verify disk.)

If you option boot, dose the computer list both Boot Volumes?

Have you tried blessing the mac hard drive?
ie: "sudo bless -folder /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/System/Library/CoreServices -bootinfo"

(note the above bless command blesses the Hard Drive with the name "Macintosh HD", if you mac volume has a different name, change to match your hard drive's name.)

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fn-gm Author

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Apr 11, 2011 11:28 PM in response to TeenTitan

1. Tried that reported no errors.
2. Yes
3. After i run the command i get this: Can't load ///usr/standalone/ppc/bootx.bootinfo

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TeenTitan

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Apr 12, 2011 12:42 AM in response to fn-gm

What about the startup disk utility on the install disk?

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Apr 12, 2011 1:45 AM in response to TeenTitan

Running that doesnt show the drives either.

I have been looking stuff up on the net. I have NFTS-3G installed, does this matter?

I disabled it and still doesn't change it.

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Apr 12, 2011 8:17 AM in response to fn-gm

*I had a look at the command and noticed i mistake i run the following*

+"sudo bless -folder /Volumes/Macintosh HD/System/Library/CoreServices -bootinfo"+

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*Its returned the following*

+-bash: sudo bless -folder /Volumes/Macintosh HD/System/Library/CoreServices -bootinfo: No such file or directory+

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