Bootcamp: Renaming/Hiding XP Partition

[rumbletum]

As said earlier, rename your drive in windows to .windows

that will make it invisible in Mac OS X.

Just to confirm, I followed this advice and it works.

You're not trying to do it in OSX are you, as I think thats why you're having problems renaming the drive, do it through windows.

 

[Hls811]

Just to confirm, I followed this advice and it works.

You're not trying to do it in OSX are you, as I think thats why you're having problems renaming the drive, do it through windows.

Nope - I'm trying in Windows - I wonder if it only works on an NTFS system? ( tired on my "real" windows PC (NTFS) and it allows me to rename it, but when I try on the BootCamp partition (FAT32) it doesn't let me...

I'll try and convert to NTFS to confirm thats the reason.

 

[MacAri]

if you rename the Windows partition to "Windows" in Disk Administrator while in Windows XP Professional it will stick. If you don't want to see the drive upon booting into OS X, you can create a start up script that automatically unmounts the Windows partition.

This works in NTFS.

Nope - I'm trying in Windows - I wonder if it only works on an NTFS system? ( tired on my "real" windows PC (NTFS) and it allows me to rename it, but when I try on the BootCamp partition (FAT32) it doesn't let me...

I'll try and convert to NTFS to confirm thats the reason.

 

[nospleen]

Here it is...

flame on...

Can you email me that Xp icon? emsdad@mac.com

Thanks!

 

[brianguy]

Automatically Hiding (Unmounting) Boot Camp Partition

Here's the full solution:

http://blog.brianguy.com/2009/11/automatically-unmount-boot-camp.html