How to permanently eject a BootCamp volume?

Hi guys

Since I installed Windows on the Mac, the Windows volume is always on the desktop. How do I disable the automount of that disk, or permanently eject it while in Mac OS X?

 

try reading this link... it should work... I think...

http://www.macgeekery.com/gspot/2005-12/hiding_partitions

 

ok i just tried it out...
you get the UUID like told, then make a file called fstab in the /etc folder..

Open Terminal.app
type in

substitute [name] with the name of the drive it mounts as (default Windows bootcamp install calls it Untitled)

highlight and CMD+C the big long UUID number

make and open up a fstab file...
you can do this via command line by typing in

type in your admin password
it will open a blank file where you need to type in. (you can CMD+V to paste in the UUID you copied earlier) just add a line similar to mine, but put in your own drives UUID

hit CTRL+X to exit, and answer Y as in yes to save the changes ...

this works ok for NTFS windows partitions. You can still manually mount it in Disk Utility later if you need it, it just wont do it automatically.

 

It's not working. It doesn't give me info about the drive. Then when I ask it to open a fstab file, it asks me for the password and doesn't let me type it in.

 

make sure your looking for the right drive and what its really named... if it shows no info you are not typing in the right name under Volumes.

when you try to do a fstab file in /etc/ it is not accessible to a normal user, so it has to be run with "sudo" so and given an admin password... it does let you type it in, it just doesn't show it, just type the password and hit enter. making the fstab file wont help if you don't get your volume label first and get the UUID.

you can get the UUID another way, open up Disk Utility, select the partition and hit the Info button. Stretch the info window out so you can see the entire UUID listed there and copy and paste form that.... its labeled as "Universal Unique Identifier" in Disk Utility.

 

Why would you want to? If you don't want to see it, just remove the partition. I guess I just don't understand what the problem is. OS X is behaving as designed, to automatically mount partitions. When you insert a cd/dvd, it automatically mounts them as well. Why does that bother you to see an icon of the partition on the desktop?

 

This is the info that it gives me:

Last login: Sat Jun 20 11:17:09 on ttys001
remikes-macbook-pro:~ Remike$ diskutil info /Volumes/WINDOWS HD
Disk Utility Tool
Usage: diskutil information [-plist] MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode|UUID
diskutil info [-plist] MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode|UUID
Display detailed information about a disk or partition.
Root access is not required.
remikes-macbook-pro:~ Remike$

 

thats telling you it doesn't understand your command... maybe better to get the UUID from within Disk Utility, which I posted earlier'

its probably not understanding the HD on the end, it doesn't know thats still part of the name and thinks your trying to add more commands. You might have to type it like this...

diskutil info "/Volumes/WINDOWS HD"

usually quotes will work on paths on command line commands...

 

If you just want to hide the bootcamp partition from your desktop, startup bootcamp and rename the c: drive with a leading period. Something like "My_Drive" to ".My_Drive". When you restart in OS X, the drive will be hidden from view - but still accessible, if you ever need to get information from it.