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rename bootcamp partition?

post #1 of 8
11/13/07 at 1:04pm
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Hi,

I am an inexperienced Mac user that just purchased an MBP. I set up a bootcamp partition that seems to be working perfectly except I must have missed the part where you name the partition during setup (it is called "untitled"). Anyone know how I might rename this partition? Does not appear to be available in the same way that the Macintosh HD is.

Thanks,

bob
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post #2 of 8
11/13/07 at 1:21pm
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Oops, should have done a more thorough search. nevermind.

For posterity -

The drive is NTFS thus cannot be renamed on the Mac side. I renamed the drive on the XP side, in fact I renamed it ".windows" so that it would not show up on the Mac desktop anymore.

b
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post #3 of 8
11/14/07 at 9:01pm
Ha...that's a clever idea! I don't have an Intel Mac yet but I am planning on running Windows when I do get one and having the extra drive on the desktop would probably drive me nuts. I'll have to remember to use a period infront of the name. I never even thought of doing that for a volume name.
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post #4 of 8
11/15/07 at 3:18pm
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Originally Posted by Kakaze View Post
Ha...that's a clever idea! I don't have an Intel Mac yet but I am planning on running Windows when I do get one and having the extra drive on the desktop would probably drive me nuts. I'll have to remember to use a period infront of the name. I never even thought of doing that for a volume name.
In leopard you can actually set the desktop to not show harddrive volumes. I have mine to only show external volumes when they are connected so my desktop is nice and clean. Seeing the MacHD all the time bugged me.
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post #5 of 8
11/15/07 at 10:56pm
You could do that in Tiger too.

I like seeing Macintosh HD myself.
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post #6 of 8
11/16/07 at 3:22am
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Originally Posted by Kakaze View Post
You could do that in Tiger too.

I like seeing Macintosh HD myself.
I used to until I got iStatMenus... now I have no qualms in covering up that corner of my desktop.
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post #7 of 8
11/22/07 at 12:20am
Here's a quick question. After you do a clean install with Leopard OS, can you still use boot camp to make another partation for the old Tiger OS? I just wanted to know if it was possible.
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post #8 of 8
11/22/07 at 2:38am
Just make the partition while you're installing Leopard.

The menubar in the installer has Disk Utility in it.
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