Renaming your Windows partition hdd?

[superspiffy]

My Windows Boot Camp partition is named "untitled." Is there anyway to rename it like what you can do with your Mac partition or your external hdds?

 

[joshysquashy]

My Windows Boot Camp partition is named "untitled." Is there anyway to rename it like what you can do with your Mac partition or your external hdds?

Did you choose for windows to be on an NTFS disk or on a FAT one? If it is fat, you can read and write (open files and copy/change files), if it is ntfs, you can only view files, not alter anything (including the name of the drive).

Its difficult to convert NTFS to FAT, your best bet is to reinstall XP, choosing FAT when asked.

Sorry.

 

[xUKHCx]

Did you choose for windows to be on an NTFS disk or on a FAT one? If it is fat, you can read and write (open files and copy/change files), if it is ntfs, you can only view files, not alter anything (including the name of the drive).

Its difficult to convert NTFS to FAT, your best bet is to reinstall XP, choosing FAT when asked.

Sorry.

Thats a bit extreme advise. To rename it simply boot into windows and go into My Computer and rename it there, the partition should then be renamed accordingly.

 

[joshysquashy]

Thats a bit extreme advise. To rename it simply boot into windows and go into My Computer and rename it there, the partition should then be renamed accordingly.

I didn't find that to be the case, but perhaps I am wrong. I originally had an NTFS partition but could not send files to the windows partition and couldn't set the name. so I went with fat.

 

[joshysquashy]

Quote from another thread:

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.

 

[jhkingsr]

My bootcamp partition was called "NO_NAME" by default. I changed it to "WINDOWS XP" in OSX disk utility. Had no problems.

 

[xUKHCx]

I didn't find that to be the case, but perhaps I am wrong. I originally had an NTFS partition but could not send files to the windows partition and couldn't set the name. so I went with fat.

If the rive is NFTS that OS X isn't able to write to it (MacFuse does enable this through 3rd party route).

You should've been able to rename it while you where in windows dunno why that didn't work.

Quote from another thread:

Or alternatively rename it so that is starts with a full stop, e.g. ".windows"

 

[AlexisV]

It doesn't matter how the Windows partition has been formatted - just renaming it in Windows will make the name also appear in OS X.