Hiding Your “Untitled” Boot Camp Drive
After getting back to Boot Camp from a dual-boot Mac OS X system, I remembered how disappointing it was that I couldn’t rename the Windows NTFS volume from “Untitled” to something more appropriate. The Garbage In Garbage Out blog has a tip that will accomplish the next best thing: Hide the Boot Camp volume from your Desktop.
Using the SetFile utility from the Developer Tools package that came with your Mac (on the second disc), you can effectively remove the volume from view in the Finder, while not affecting its normal operation or visibility anywhere else in the system. Great tip!
September 20th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
Incidentally, you can rename the Windows partition; just boot into Windows, name the drive there, and when you reboot into Mac OS X, the new name will appear. This definitely works in Vista as that’s how my MacBook is set up; haven’t tried it with XP though I can’t think why it wouldn’t work.
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:55 am
I thought that you could just drag the BootCamp Drive off the Finder window and it will not show up again. Now, I had BootCamp installed on my machine, so I may not be remembering correctly.
February 9th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Hi,
why the all the fuzz because of a desktop Icon?
Install http://www.ntfs-3g.org, make Leopard read AND write NTFS-Partitions in order to change Volume names at your likings … and dont even pay sth for it …
scnr … :=)
dennis
April 10th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Dennis, i have ntfs-3G and that doesn’t work.