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    How to remove one of two hard disk icons off desktop in Leopard

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by mike-d, Jun 15, 2009.

  1. mike-d

    mike-d Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey guys :D. I have BootCamp configured and my HD is partitioned into two. In Leopard, I display the Hard disk icons on the desktop, but now I have the Windows hard disk too, which is annoying. I never use it and it's annoying. If I go to the finder settings and turn off the "display hard disk" setting, all my HD icons disappear, even the Macintosh HD one. How can I remove only one HD icon (the Windows HD)?
     
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    lixuelai Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    I think an Applescript in Account.Login Items should do it.

    tell application "Finder"
    if (exists the disk "volumeName") then (eject "volumeName")
    end if
    end tell
     
    lixuelai, Jun 15, 2009
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  3. ATC

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    Go into Windows, right click on your windows harddrive (under "Computer", most likely called "Local Disk C:"), goto Properties and enter a name in the top box, whatever name you want but make sure to put a dot ahead of the name, ie " .Windows" for example, without the " ", then click OK. Restart the computer now into OSX and the Windows HD should be gone.
     
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    mike-d Notebook Enthusiast

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    Seems like the most informed reply ;) Thanks, I'll try it.
     
    mike-d, Jun 16, 2009
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    mike-d Notebook Enthusiast

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    I can't; it won't allow characters such as points and dots. I'm FAT32 :p
     
    mike-d, Jun 16, 2009
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    That's strange. On every windows install I've done on any of my Macs it always formats the windows partition in NTFS (it's the default setting in Clean/Advanced install of Vista). The drawback of course is that you can't easily file-share between the Windows and OSX partitions but the method outlined in my post above works flawlessly.
     
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    The thing is that I wanted Mac to access the Windows hard disk by default. BTW I use XP. Any other way?
     
    mike-d, Jun 17, 2009
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    #!/bin/sh
    /usr/sbin/diskutil unmount /Volumes/Untitled/
     
    hehe299792458, Jun 17, 2009
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