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Starting up with the wrong drive

Feb 4, 2010 3:20PM PST

Every time I start up my computer, it does not boot the selected drive but a different one.
Restarting again after this, the right drive is booted, but I lost the arrangement of my desktop icons and have to reorganize them.
What's wrong ?

My computer:
Software:
Systemversion: Mac OS X 10.6.2 (10C540)
Kernel-Version: Darwin 10.2.0
Startvolume: Macintosh HD
Startmodus: Normal
Sicherer virtueller Speicher: Nicht aktiviert
64-Bit-Kernel and -Erweiterungen: Ja
Hardware:
Modellname: Mac Pro
Modell-Identifizierung: MacPro3,1
Prozessortyp: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Prozessorgeschwindigkeit: 2,8 GHz
Anzahl der Prozessoren: 2
Gesamtzahl der Kerne: 8
L2-Cache (pro Prozessor): 12 MB
Speicher: 8 GB
Busgeschwindigkeit: 1,6 GHz
Boot-ROM-Version: MP31.006C.B05
SMC-Version (System): 1.25f4
Hardware-UUID: 60ABFB45-A49B-5D85-9C91-5DE2AD04F1AC

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Take a look in System Preferences,
Feb 4, 2010 8:49PM PST

Startup Disk and make sure that the drive you want to boot from is selected.


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Starting up with the wrong drive
Feb 5, 2010 6:24PM PST

That's what I did first.
Right drive is selected.

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any solution
Oct 25, 2012 5:20AM PDT

I'm having the same problem - sys preferences has the right drive selected, if I hold Option key at startup right disk is preselected,, but if I boot normally, startup is from another drive. Did you ever get this solved?
OSX 10.8.2 Mac Pro 4 internal disks