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Renaming partition? FOUND A SOLUTION #1 post

acfusion29

acfusion29

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I tried doing it in Windows, and in Leopard it doesn't let me.

Is there a program that can do it, so instead of it saying Untitled, it says Windows HDD :)

Pic below.

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Edit: FOUND A SOLUTION, EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE NTFS

1. Go into Windows
2. Right click on my computer>properties
3. Find device manager (forgot which tab it's under)
4. Go to disk drives
5. Right click on the HDD and hit properties? (Something like that)
6. Go threw each tab until you see something called "Populate" at the bottom, hit that and let the drives appear.
7. Rename the partition, restart and go to Leopard and it will work :)

How do I know this works?
Well, I went into Windows, and restarted and went back into Leopard. My partition wasn't there :S So I went back INTO Windows, did the populate thing and booted back into Leopard and it's fine. You shouldn't have to rename it again, but you have to hit populate.

So if you formated to NTFS (which is the smart thing to do cause Fat32 has a limit of 4GB or something), every time you go into Windows and back into Leopard, you need to populate in the properties.
 
If the partition is formatted in NTFS, you can't change its name in OS X, but if you change it in Windows it should show up correctly in OS X. Make sure when you change it in Windows you're changing the actual entry for the mounted volume in My Computer, not a shortcut somewhere else or something.
 
TEG said:
Can you not do it through either Get Info or Disc Utility?

TEG
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I'm looking threw it right now, not sure where to go. :confused: Can't find where to go to change it.

In get info, it doesn't let me do it. It doesn't even let me select it.

killmoms said:
If the partition is formatted in NTFS, you can't change its name in OS X, but if you change it in Windows it should show up correctly in OS X. Make sure when you change it in Windows you're changing the actual entry for the mounted volume in My Computer, not a shortcut somewhere else or something.
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I tried, if I change the name then the drive disappears off my desktop.
 
MAW said:
I would love to figure this out too. Also, how were you able to change the icon for the win partition? Copying and pasting a png into "get info" isn't working for me:confused:
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You have to select it so the icon outlines in blue (the one in the top left hand corner, not the huge one in the middle), then hit command V


Edit: I went into windows and renamed it to Windows HDD. closed my computer, reopened it, and right clicked and made sure it was still the same. Then I went to device manager and went to disks, right clicked on the partition and made sure it was renamed there as well. Booted to Leopard and it's changed.
 
acfusion29 said:
I tried doing it in Windows, and in Leopard it doesn't let me.

Is there a program that can do it, so instead of it saying Untitled, it says Windows HDD :)

Pic below.

picture1ma3.png


Edit: FOUND A SOLUTION, EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE NTFS

1. Go into Windows
2. Right click on my computer>properties
3. Find device manager (forgot which tab it's under)
4. Go to disk drives
5. Right click on the HDD and hit properties? (Something like that)
6. Go threw each tab until you see something called "Populate" at the bottom, hit that and let the drives appear.
7. Rename the partition, restart and go to Leopard and it will work :)

How do I know this works?
Well, I went into Windows, and restarted and went back into Leopard. My partition wasn't there :S So I went back INTO Windows, did the populate thing and booted back into Leopard and it's fine. You shouldn't have to rename it again, but you have to hit populate.

So if you formated to NTFS (which is the smart thing to do cause Fat32 has a limit of 4GB or something), every time you go into Windows and back into Leopard, you need to populate in the properties.
Click to expand...

where did you get the icons from ?

do they have them in pro ?

Cheers
 
Thanks for the additional tip. I did not know that would work also.

I ended up doing something a little different.

While i was booted to Windows I simply right clicked (c:Windows) selected rename and choose the name of ".Windows" without the quotes and when I rebooted to OS X the volume showed as Windows. Then I removed it from the Desktop.
 
Here's an easier method.

Boot into windows, goto my computer, right click on C drive, rename to something else. reboot into OSX, see you renamed drive.
 
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