Bootcamp is the tool to use for dual booting between windows and mac os x. During setup bootcamp creates a new partition on which the windows system will be installed. The newly created partition is also shown on the leopard desktop, with the unsightly name: untitled.
If you like a clean desktop you can prevent this drive from showing by changing its name to something starting with a ‘.’ (full stop). When a file or folder on a unix system like mac os x starts with a ‘.’ the operating system treats the file/folder as hidden.
The tricky part is that you may not be able to rename the drive from within leopard but you can rename it through windows.
How to hide the bootcamp partition in leopard.
- Boot into XP using bootcamp.
- Click Start -> My Computer
- Right click on ‘Local Disk (C:)’
- Properties -> General Tab
- Type a name of the drive starting with a ‘.’ eg. .winxp
- Click – Apply -> OK
The next time you start leopard, it will see the bootcamp partition name starts with a ‘.’ dot and will treat the drive as hidden.
