New Drive not Automatically Detected?

[plethon]

I just upgraded my late–model Penryn MBP from the stock Hitachi 200GB 5400rpm drive to a Seagate 500GB 7200rpm drive.

Performance–wise, I'm happy. XBench is indicating a significant gain on the disk test (especially in the sequential test), and I loved being able to use Quicksilver almost as soon as I saw the menubar.

However, when I turned on the machine, it did not recognize the drive automatically, and I had to hold down the Option key in order to get it to boot from the disk. I cloned my old HD using CarbonCopy Cloner. Once I did that everything was (obviously) fine.

How can I get the MBP to recognize my new disk as the default boot volume?

 

[davidlv]

I just upgraded my late–model Penryn MBP from the stock Hitachi 200GB 5400rpm drive to a Seagate 500GB 7200rpm drive. ...
How can I get the MBP to recognize my new disk as the default boot volume?

1. Apple Menu/System Preferences/Startup Disk
Is your new HD selected? Select it and reboot.
Did that work?
2. If not, try rebooting while holding down the Command+Option+P+R keys to reset the PRAM, then check # 1 above again.
That should get you going, but if not post again here.

 

[plethon]

1. Apple Menu/System Preferences/Startup Disk
Is your new HD selected? Select it and reboot.
Did that work?
2. If not, try rebooting while holding down the Command+Option+P+R keys to reset the PRAM, then check # 1 above again.
That should get you going, but if not post again here.

Startup Disk. Aren't I red.

I was sitting here going, "There has to be some utility or preference pane to let me set this, why can't I find it?!" D'oh.