Boot Camp doesn't show my Windows partition when I hold Option and boot...

[.:r32]

Hi everyone,

So the title pretty much explains everything. I ran Boot Camp and created an 8GB partition which now has Windows XP Pro on it and everything went smoothly. I am very happy with it, except for this one problem. I have it set up so that it default boots into Leopard, but the manual says when I hold Option during boot, it should let me choose between the partitions; however, when I do this, it only shows the Mac OS X partition, and no Windows partition. If I go to System Preferences->Startup Disk, I can restart in XP, but this is the only way right now. I want to be able to manually choose by holding Option during boot. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance, since this community is always very helpful to me.

 

[Neil321]

Is your bootcamp partition formatted FAT32 as if so this could be the reason
there is a thread about this issue,to cut along story it needs to be NTFS for you
to have the option at boot up

 

[.:r32]

Is your bootcamp partition formatted FAT32 as if so this could be the reason
there is a thread about this issue,to cut along story it needs to be NTFS for you
to have the option at boot up

Ah I see. I am pretty sure mine is formatted in FAT32. So is there NO way to make it available at boot?

 

[Neil321]

Ah I see. I am pretty sure mine is formatted in FAT32. So is there NO way to make it available at boot?

Im not sure of any other way apart from a re-format.I know there is a thread
somewhere about this issue as others have had this problem i suggested it to them
as i had read it from somewhere and it worked

 

[.:r32]

Ok, so thanks everyone for your help. I got it figured out and converted the Windows partition from FAT32 to NTFS. Now, however, the partition shows up in OS X as a volume named "Untitled" instead of "Windows XP" as it was previously, and I cannot rename the volume. What am I doing wrong?

 

[JNB]

Boot into Windows and rename it there.