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Removing Windows hard drives from OS X desktop

Spanky Deluxe

Spanky Deluxe

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I've installed BootCamp on my girlfriend's MacBook, however, I'd rather have it so that it doesn't show up on the desktop. I formatted it with FAT32 so that I can access it when needed although I don't want it on the desktop to confuse my girlfriend and risk her accidentally messing up the Windows install.

Also, on another note, is there anyway to stop OS X from displaying the names of FAT32 formatted drives in capital letters on the desktop?
 
Add this line

LABEL=WINXP none msdos rw,noauto

to the file /etc/fstab where WINXP is the actual label of your winxp partition.
 
Spanky Deluxe said:
I've installed BootCamp on my girlfriend's MacBook, however, I'd rather have it so that it doesn't show up on the desktop. I formatted it with FAT32 so that I can access it when needed although I don't want it on the desktop to confuse my girlfriend and risk her accidentally messing up the Windows install.

Also, on another note, is there anyway to stop OS X from displaying the names of FAT32 formatted drives in capital letters on the desktop?
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When in Windows renamed the drive with a "." minus quotes in front of the name. Then OS X will treat it as invisible and it will not appear on the desktop.
 
You could always go into Finder's preferences (Cmd+,) and uncheck Hard Disks. However, this will also hide your Macintosh HD from the desktop.
 
xUKHCx said:
When in Windows renamed the drive with a "." minus quotes in front of the name. Then OS X will treat it as invisible and it will not appear on the desktop.
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um sorry, i dont quite follow... doe that i mean i rename C: drive with a period infront of it? currently my drive is named untitled and i NTFS formatted it. sorry for hijacking thread =)

also, is it possible to copy stuff directly to my NTFS formatted windows HD? i read about it somewhere before but i totally forgot.... haha thanks!
 
Wanderer509 said:
um sorry, i dont quite follow... doe that i mean i rename C: drive with a period infront of it? currently my drive is named untitled and i NTFS formatted it. sorry for hijacking thread =)

also, is it possible to copy stuff directly to my NTFS formatted windows HD? i read about it somewhere before but i totally forgot.... haha thanks!
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Yes you should call it .untitled
For NTFS support you have to install macfuse
 
Pendora said:
Yes you should call it .untitled
For NTFS support you have to install macfuse
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ok... so to make it clear, if i want the untitled windows partition to disappear from macosx, i rename it .untitled. in addition, if i want macosx to support copying to NTFS, i would install macfuse. is that correct?
 
Yes, that is correct.

However, you do not have to necessarily use the word "untitled." Like xUKHCx said, you can label the Windows partition anything you like but just be sure to put the "dot" immediately in front of it.

FWIW, any file or volume in OS X will be hidden by default if there is a period/dot in front of it.
 
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