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Bootcamp: Renaming/Hiding XP Partition

rumbletum

rumbletum

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Apr 2, 2005
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Wolverhampton, UK
I've just installed XP, and the only thing I don't like is that I've got a new icon on my OSX desktop. Is there any way of hiding just this icon from view? Also its currently called 'untitled', can I change this to something else without effecting my XP setup?

Thanks
 
Here is what the rest of my desktop looks like... if anyone is interested :eek:
 

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I guess you have a FAT32 partition?

I can't seem to change the name of a NTFS one here...
 
Electro Funk said:
Hmmm... so if you unmount it you can write to it under NTFS?

I did not know that...
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I'm pretty sure he's saying he unmounts it so it doesn't show up on the desktop. If I wanted to hide my NTFS partition, I'd load Windows, rename the drive .Windows and it wouldn't show up on the desktop when loading OSX. I do believe it'd still show in the sidebar of Finder windows though.
 
ManchesterTrix said:
I'm pretty sure he's saying he unmounts it so it doesn't show up on the desktop. If I wanted to hide my NTFS partition, I'd load Windows, rename the drive .Windows and it wouldn't show up on the desktop when loading OSX. I do believe it'd still show in the sidebar of Finder windows though.
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Correct. It's NTFS so it's read only and I don't intend to share any data between the two that's not on an external data source (CD, USB stick, etc...) So I just don't want to see it all the time or have it mounted. If I was rebooting often I'd probably set it up in the login script or the like.

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balamw said:
Correct. It's NTFS so it's read only and I don't intend to share any data between the two that's not on an external data source (CD, USB stick, etc...) So I just don't want to see it all the time or have it mounted. If I was rebooting often I'd probably set it up in the login script or the like.

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ahhhh... i see... that makes sense...:)
 
Electro Funk said:
Here it is... :eek:

flame on...
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Hmmmm. Where did you get that icon for XP from? I really like that the boot loader shows the icon of your HD....I thought it might have just defaulted to the stock HD one...hmmm.....
 
harveypooka said:
I really like that the boot loader shows the icon of your HD
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The image posted is not of his bootloader, it's of his desktop. (See the later post for the full image.)

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balamw said:
The image posted is not of his bootloader, it's of his desktop. (See the later post for the full image.)

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I want to know where he got the icon of XP from. I was talking about MY boot loader...it shows the picture of my Macintosh HD and the untitled volume.
 
balamw said:
The image posted is not of his bootloader, it's of his desktop. (See the later post for the full image.)

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that is correct... at the bootload screen my Mac icon actually looks like the iMac on my desktop but the windows icon is still the generic drive icon...

Dont remember where i got the icon but would be happy to send it to you if you want it... just PM me your email... ;)
 
rumbletum said:
OF course, when I reboot, its back there on my desktop. Any way for the icon to be permanently hidden?
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Don't mean to re-open an old thread, but I'm having the same problem - I formatted using FAT32, and it re-appears each time I reboot into OSX... Is the only way to unmount if its NTFS or am I missing something.. I don't want to have to delete it each time..
 
Hls811 said:
Don't mean to re-open an old thread, but I'm having the same problem - I formatted using FAT32, and it re-appears each time I reboot into OSX... Is the only way to unmount if its NTFS or am I missing something.. I don't want to have to delete it each time..
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As said earlier, rename your drive in windows to .windows

that will make it invisible in Mac OS X.
 
yankeefan24 said:
As said earlier, rename your drive in windows to .windows

that will make it invisible in Mac OS X.
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Maybe I'm simplifying too much, but how? .windows is an invalid drive name (cause of the period).
 
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