Hiding Disk Drives?

[wayland1985]

I have vista running on a Partition on my Hard Drive. I'm sick of looking at the "UNTITLED" Disk drive on my desktop... is there a way to hide it? (I can't even rename it...)

 

[Tallest Skil]

You rename it from within Windows.

 

[~Shard~]

I believe you have the ability to rename it in Windows.

Edit: Beaten to it!

 

[wayland1985]

Okay... i can try that... but there's no way to hide it?

 

[MacDawg]

You can name it starting with a "." and it will be hidden

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[wayland1985]

Never mind... i just ejected it an it disappeared... hopefully that's all there is to it...

 

[pj-]

it'll come back the next time you reboot

 

[wayland1985]

it'll come back the next time you reboot

That's fine. I'll have to try the "." trick though... It's no big deal just dumping it every time I reboot either...

 

[gmanterry]

I can rename the Windows XP drive.

I'm running Leopard and it allows me to rename my Windows XP drive. The difference may perhaps be that I'm running under Bootcamp. OSX even allowed me to change the Icon on the XP drive.

Terry

 

[hhlee]

why don't you put another item over it with a bigger icon and name?

 

[xraydoc]

I'm running Leopard and it allows me to rename my Windows XP drive. The difference may perhaps be that I'm running under Bootcamp. OSX even allowed me to change the Icon on the XP drive.

Terry

That's because you've formatted your BootCamp volume as FAT32. If its NTFS, you wont be able to rename it (or change the icon) from OS X.

 

[gmanterry]

Thanks, I had not thought of that.

That's because you've formatted your BootCamp volume as FAT32. If its NTFS, you wont be able to rename it (or change the icon) from OS X.


Thanks. That makes sense as I DO have the drive formatted FAT 32.

Terry

 

[jazz1]

You can name it starting with a "." and it will be hidden

Woof, Woof - Dawg

Would the "." trick work on an OSX partition on a single HD? If so on re-boot could I choose it as the boot drive using the "option key"?