Thread: How can I hide the Windows 7 hard drive from Mac OS X desktop?

Hi,

I recently built a "Dual Boot Hackintosh with Windows 7 PC". Installed each operating system into a seperate hard drive and everything is OK by now. The only "problem" I've got is that everytime I log on to Mac OS X Snow Leopard, I see the "Windows 7 hard drive" (named "Untitled") on the MacOSX Desktop mounted.

How can I hide the Windows 7 hard drive from the Mac OS X desktop? I dont want Mac OS X to mount the "Windows 7 hard drive" everytime I boot to Mac.

Anyone?

Thank you in advance!

I was thinking the same thing this morning. i'm doing a research, if i find something ill get back to you.

If you are using Chameleon, try Lizard. It has an option to hide partitions easy. Actually it is a option of Chameleon, but with lizard its easy to use.
http://www.kexts.com/view/875-lizard.html

Or do it with manualy:
Add to com.apple.boot.plist:
<key>Hide Partition</key>
<string>hd(x,y)</string>
hd(x,y), example: hide disk0s1 -> hd(0,1).

Originally Posted by ultraxmode

Hi,

I recently built a "Dual Boot Hackintosh with Windows 7 PC". Installed each operating system into a seperate hard drive and everything is OK by now. The only "problem" I've got is that everytime I log on to Mac OS X Snow Leopard, I see the "Windows 7 hard drive" (named "Untitled") on the MacOSX Desktop mounted.

How can I hide the Windows 7 hard drive from the Mac OS X desktop? I dont want Mac OS X to mount the "Windows 7 hard drive" everytime I boot to Mac.

Anyone?

Thank you in advance!

If you want hide from the boot menu use...

<key>Hide Partition</key>
<string>hd(x,y)</string>

And if you want to hide from your desktop try
Onyx, he have`s a option to hide unwanted
disks/partitions.

/etc/fstab:
LABEL=Windows none ntfs ro,noauto

I am a newbie in Hackintoshing... so.. where do I put this parameter? in fstab ?

Thanks.

OK, "LABEL=<drive name>" did not work for me.
But you can do it like this with the UUID. First find the UUID:

1. Open Disk Utility and select the partition to hide (NOT the disk)
2. CTRL-clik and select Information
3. Now you can see the UUID (Universal Unique Identifier)
   It's something like this "A185E636-AE2A-4B08-B194-792A3D4FC951"
4. Start the Terminal
   Type: sudo pico -w /etc/fstab
   It will ask your password.
   Next type:
   UUID=FILL IN HERE YOUR NUMBER none ntfs ro,noauto 0 0
   CTRL+O to save
   press RETURN
   CTRL+X to exit
   
   Reboot

My example:
You have now created a file /etc/fstab (no extension)
The contents of this file (fstab) is:
UUID=A185E636-AE2A-4B08-B194-792A3D4FC951 none ntfs ro,noauto 0 0

Mind:

Code:

sudo pico -w /etc/fstab

will create a new file

and

Code:

sudo pico /etc/fstab

to edit the file

pico is a small terminal text editor
sudo="substitute user do (superuser)", it will always ask for your password (type it en press ENTER, you will NOT see the text you type)

If the drive is FAT32 just replace ntfs by msdos

Thank you so much for your analytic approach! You are great.

I will check it out and I will get back with my results.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Rene

OK, "LABEL=<drive name>" did not work for me.
But you can do it like this with the UUID. First find the UUID:
[list=1][*]Open Disk Utility and select the partition to hide (NOT the disk)[*]CTRL-clik and select Information[*]Now you can see the UUID (Universal Unique Identifier)
It's something like this "A185E636-AE2A-4B08-B194-792A3D4FC951"[*]Start the Terminal
Type: sudo pico -w /etc/fstab/
It will ask your password.
Next type:
UUID=FILL IN HERE YOUR NUMBER none ntfs ro,noauto 0 0
CTRL+O to save
press RETURN
CTRL+X to exit

Hi again. I tried this but when I am ready to save it (pressing CTRL+O) it says "Error Writing /etc/fstab/: No such file or directory"

Did I do something wrong?...

Thanks Rene !

its working with "ONYX" , its a free app for multiple purposes like cleaning etc. the option to hide a volume its under utilities. very easy.