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Old 04-21-2006, 07:02 PM
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Use SD to replace startup disk

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Originally Posted by dnanian
The "1" is what the system uses when two drives are named the same to distinguish between them. The non-boot drive should have a "1" after it, placed there by the system., with the boot drive without the "1". This ensures that aliases properly resolve to the boot volume, rather than the "source".

Hope that helps!
Thanks.

Just to be sure, my current external drive in the firewire enclosure, that's now my boot drive, will be happy when it awakes to find itself newly installed as the internal drive in the iMac, and should boot up OK?

-Brian
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