Failed Volume ??

[Washac]

Hi

When I turn on my Macbook it all fires up OK, then an error box opens with this message..

A volume failed to mount.

The volume "MacHD" could not be mounted.

In the error box is a picture of a drive with three little people upon it.

I cannot find this volume anywhere, but if I boot the Macbook with Airport turned of it does not happen. I assume this volume is something to do with the main machine, I used to have a drive called this but it no longer exists.

How can I stop this happening ?

 

[adamfishercox]

That sounds like a shared Hard Drive, and the Airport coincidence confirms that. Have you ever had a hard drive shared over the network? Perhaps at work/ at a prior setup, and it's still looking to mount it?

 

[GfulDedFan]

How can I stop this happening ?

You need to goto System Preferences/Startup Disk and select your internal HD and click Restart. Since you're restarting your system you should finish your work and close all your applications beforehand. -GDF

 

[Washac]

That sounds like a shared Hard Drive, and the Airport coincidence confirms that. Have you ever had a hard drive shared over the network? Perhaps at work/ at a prior setup, and it's still looking to mount it?

Yes it was drive that was shared over a prior setup.

The Macbook all boots OK and all works OK, a few seconds after booting up that error about the "MacHD" pops up, I can just close it and carry on.

How do I tell the Macbook that the shared drive no longer exists.

 

[Washac]

You need to goto System Preferences/Startup Disk and select your internal HD and click Restart. Since you're restarting your system you should finish your work and close all your applications beforehand. -GDF

Please see last reply, this is not a boot up problem, the Macbook goes looking for this "MacHD" old shared drive after booting....

 

[adamfishercox]

Are there any buttons on the window such as Disconnect or something?

 

[ux4all]

Please see last reply, this is not a boot up problem, the Macbook goes looking for this "MacHD" old shared drive after booting....

Of the apps that run at StartUp, perhaps one of them had a storage location on the share? I don't think iTunes Helper cares until iTunes is started but other apps might attempt to link to this location as part of their start...

On a brief tangent, this is really annoying on M$'s OS (but generally easy to fix).

 

[Washac]

Are there any buttons on the window such as Disconnect or something?

In a word, nope.....

 

[Washac]

Of the apps that run at StartUp, perhaps one of them had a storage location on the share? I don't think iTunes Helper cares until iTunes is started but other apps might attempt to link to this location as part of their start...

On a brief tangent, this is really annoying on M$'s OS (but generally easy to fix).

This sounds more likely, how do I see what apps open at startup ?

 

[Washac]

This sounds more likely, how do I see what apps open at startup ?

Library > Startupitems

Nothing in there....

 

[Washac]

Of the apps that run at StartUp, perhaps one of them had a storage location on the share? I don't think iTunes Helper cares until iTunes is started but other apps might attempt to link to this location as part of their start...

On a brief tangent, this is really annoying on M$'s OS (but generally easy to fix).

taken things out of login items in account and nothing in startupitems

I'm confused :/

 

[GfulDedFan]

This sounds more likely, how do I see what apps open at startup ?

System Preferences/Accounts/Login Items

 

[Washac]

System Preferences/Accounts/Login Items

Done all that, see above.