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Internal hard drives don't appear on desktop after restart
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<blockquote data-quote="Tuppy" data-source="post: 1886221" data-attributes="member: 408224"><p>Well, MacInWin, I tried dragging the disk icons to the login items in System Preferences/Users & Groups, as you suggested, but that didn't make the drives appear on restarts, so I guess I'll have to keep looking for other solutions. Thanks for the suggestion though.</p><p></p><p>Horsa, I do suspect that my simply transplanting the boot drive from the old computer to the new one is the source of this problem. As you say, there's no real reason to restart the computer very often, but what worries me is that if it's a little flaky on restarts, it might be flaky in other ways, ways that might endanger (corrupt) important files later. I'd really like the OS to behave the way it's supposed to before I try to do any serious work on this machine.</p><p></p><p>Mark Allread, I tried to put a bootable volume on one of my other three drives, but I couldn't do it. I found in my Applications folder an "Install OS El Capitan.app," and tried to use it to install the OS on Drive #4, which is only a backup for Drive #3. Trouble is, the only drive that the installer app offers to install the OS on is the boot drive itself, which of course already has it. The installer apparently can't see the other three drives for some reason, so it doesn't offer to install an OS on them.</p><p></p><p>So, here's a thought. What if I did allow the installer put the OS onto the boot drive, right on top of the OS that's already there? Do you suppose that would correct things? Would it leave everything else on the drive alone (all the apps, users, settings, etc.)? I was afraid that in the process of installing a new OS on top of the old one, it might wipe the drive of everything else. I have a ton of apps in the Application Folder that I'd hate to have to install all over again.</p><p></p><p>Re your second suggestion, do you mean that if I erase (reformat) one of the other drives in the computer, and then drag the entire contents of the boot drive onto it, then use Disk Utility to erase and reformat the original boot drive, and then drag the OS back onto it, the problem might be corrected? Since, as I said, drive #4 is only a backup drive, I could certainly wipe and reformat it and do that. It would only leave Drive #3 un-backed-up for a short while.</p><p></p><p>Which of those two courses of action do you think might have the best chance of success?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tuppy, post: 1886221, member: 408224"] Well, MacInWin, I tried dragging the disk icons to the login items in System Preferences/Users & Groups, as you suggested, but that didn't make the drives appear on restarts, so I guess I'll have to keep looking for other solutions. Thanks for the suggestion though. Horsa, I do suspect that my simply transplanting the boot drive from the old computer to the new one is the source of this problem. As you say, there's no real reason to restart the computer very often, but what worries me is that if it's a little flaky on restarts, it might be flaky in other ways, ways that might endanger (corrupt) important files later. I'd really like the OS to behave the way it's supposed to before I try to do any serious work on this machine. Mark Allread, I tried to put a bootable volume on one of my other three drives, but I couldn't do it. I found in my Applications folder an "Install OS El Capitan.app," and tried to use it to install the OS on Drive #4, which is only a backup for Drive #3. Trouble is, the only drive that the installer app offers to install the OS on is the boot drive itself, which of course already has it. The installer apparently can't see the other three drives for some reason, so it doesn't offer to install an OS on them. So, here's a thought. What if I did allow the installer put the OS onto the boot drive, right on top of the OS that's already there? Do you suppose that would correct things? Would it leave everything else on the drive alone (all the apps, users, settings, etc.)? I was afraid that in the process of installing a new OS on top of the old one, it might wipe the drive of everything else. I have a ton of apps in the Application Folder that I'd hate to have to install all over again. Re your second suggestion, do you mean that if I erase (reformat) one of the other drives in the computer, and then drag the entire contents of the boot drive onto it, then use Disk Utility to erase and reformat the original boot drive, and then drag the OS back onto it, the problem might be corrected? Since, as I said, drive #4 is only a backup drive, I could certainly wipe and reformat it and do that. It would only leave Drive #3 un-backed-up for a short while. Which of those two courses of action do you think might have the best chance of success? [/QUOTE]
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