blahblahblah214 Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 I'm dual booting 10.4.5 with windows on separate hard drives, and everything is just lovely (full resolution and refresh rate, audio, usb, the works) except for the "disk insertion" error i get every time i boot. I don't have any external usb or firewire drives so I know that's not it. To make things worse, I can hear a "click of death" when I chose eject. I've had this problem since i first installed 10.4.3 and i've never been able to find a solution. I've searched the forums and the web incessantly and haven't come up with anything. Ideally I'd like to somehow disable my Windows hard drive so OSX can't access or see it, since that's where all the important stuff is. In Windows this is a simple task, just a quick click or two in the device manager and you can disable anything. I'm sure there's a terminal command to accomplish the same thing, but i haven't found it. Any advice or info about the Disc Insertion error, or ways i could disable access/unmount my other drive at boottime would be very helpfull. And kudos to all those who have made this possible, I've had more fun playing/hacking with osx86 than i've had in a while. And I'm sold. I can't wait till law school "forces" me to buy the second generation macbook pro that i so covet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 If your NTFS disk has compressed files or the entire disk is set as compressed Mac OS could bno read it well. One way I could think to get rid of that is put the NTFS on a different controller, maybe a SATA and the Mac OS disk on PATA, if you have Intel Chipset Motherboard you get rid of the SATA kext. Also there is a hint in MacOSXHints for disable automount, but I never tested: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?sto...sable+automount Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blahblahblah214 Posted March 13, 2006 Author Share Posted March 13, 2006 If your NTFS disk has compressed files or the entire disk is set as compressed Mac OS could bno read it well. One way I could think to get rid of that is put the NTFS on a different controller, maybe a SATA and the Mac OS disk on PATA, if you have Intel Chipset Motherboard you get rid of the SATA kext. Also there is a hint in MacOSXHints for disable automount, but I never tested: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?sto...sable+automount Unfortunately I don't have any flexibility where controllers are concerned. I actually have 4 hard drives, 750 gig total. 2 of them are on a pci controller, they don't show up in OSX, but my main Windows OS drive (which has three partitions and yes, there are compressed files/folders) is on the primary IDE channel. I'll have to look into disabling automount as an option. Has anyone tried it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unknownsoldierX Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 I have the same problem. Windows is on a SATA drive and OSX is on the Primary IDE. When OSX loads, I get the "disk insertion error". My SATA drive is listed (but grayed out) in the disk utility or whatever it's called. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 Acronis OS selector has the ability to hide a partition or drive on boot up selection. Look under OS property. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unknownsoldierX Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 I am using the Chain0 method, as I prefer to use XP's boot loader. I tried to edit the hostconfig file, but I when I try to save the file it won't overwrite it. How do I get around that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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