Any easy way to hide the windows partition?

[bbplayer5]

Is there any way to get the windows partition to hide, or unmount on boot that is simple to do? I tried doing some XML file in some folder, but it didnt do jack squat!

Thanks in advance 🙂

 

[SteveG4Cube]

I believe you can open Disc Utility and check an option to unmount or not show specific volumes.

 

[bbplayer5]

I dont see any option in there for that 🙁

 

[sushi]

Before, I tried the Disk Utility way by unmounting the volume. But it reappears upon a Restart/Shutdown & Start.

So if anyone knows how to do this, I would be very interested.

 

[SteveG4Cube]

I dont see any option in there for that 🙁

There's a blue button in the toolbar that says Mount/Unmount. Like the above poster said, though, it'll re-mount on the next reboot. You can try this:

http://julipedia.blogspot.com/2007/01/hide-volume-in-mac-os-x.html

 

[lancestraz]

Hmm... Has anyone tried this method (place a "." as the first character in the partitions name)? Does it work with Windows?

 

[bbplayer5]

You cant rename it via OSX, its read only. And I dont think it will read the name you give it in windows either :\

 

[SwitcherG]

This Might Help

Hi,

I had a similar problem and posted on another forum. A good smaritan helped me to find a solution and it turned out to be really simple!🙂
Do this - Make an alias of your mac hard drive icon on the desktop (do it by right-click or control-click on the Icon and choose "Make Alias" from the drop down menu). Then, go to Finder menu and under Prefrences -> go to "General" tab and uncheck the box for "Hard Disks" under "Show these items on Desktop". You would still have the alias on the desktop, but other icons will disappear.

Hope this works for you.

Bye
G

 

[M@lew]

I think the problem with the Alias option is that

1) It has that little arrow at the bottom left

2) It doesn't show the disk space information.

 

[andrewheard]

Hmm... Has anyone tried this method (place a "." as the first character in the partitions name)? Does it work with Windows?

It works with XP at least.

 

[lexus]

It is very very difficult to do that.

 

[Glen Quagmire]

You can add a line to /etc/fstab that tells OS X not to mount a Windows partition when it boots. I've had my Mac Pro doing this for months and it works a treat. If you need access to the drive, you can mount it from Disk Utility.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/234583/

See post 3.