[SOLVED] Can I disable a hard drive *internal from mounting

[sendblink23]

Hi i have 10.6.2, and well I have it on a separate internal hard drive... my second internal hard drive I use it for Windows 7 (which has 2 partitions - system reserve & untitled).

 

Is there a way from: com.apple.Boot.plist

 

Prevent to have that hard drive not to be booted/mounted for the *Snow OS

 

Not having to manually disconnect the *sata cable, also in my Bios I can't disable that drive either

 

According to Disk Utility, the hard drive is: disk0

 

Thanks

[oldnapalm]

Have you tried this?

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...st&p=503157

 

Or do you mean hide in Chameleon menu?

 

<key>Hide Partition</key>
<string>hd(0,1) hd(2,5)</string>

[sendblink23]

Have you tried this?

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...st&p=503157

 

Or do you mean hide in Chameleon menu?

 

<key>Hide Partition</key>
<string>hd(0,1) hd(2,5)</string>

 

 

no, not in chameleon

 

Anyways what's the code you just provided here for?

 

 

I will get to try the link you sent me later on, I just got a new computer case and well I have dismantled my whole desktop computer, so when I built it back up I'll start testing it(from reading the info from the link you posted, it seems exactly what I need).

 

Thanks

[Griffwill]

no, not in chameleon

 

Anyways what's the code you just provided here for?

 

 

I will get to try the link you sent me later on, I just got a new computer case and well I have dismantled my whole desktop computer, so when I built it back up I'll start testing it(from reading the info from the link you posted, it seems exactly what I need).

 

Thanks

 

the code is a string for the com.boot.plist that hides a partition in Chameleon. say you don't want your System Reserve partition to show up and it disk1s1 the string is Hide Partition, and key would be hd(1,1)

[neil43]

You are rebuilding your desktop system; have you thought about having your hard disks in removable modules? There are inexpensive hard disk tray systems that allow you to physically switch hard drives without having to open the case. You switch computing environments by switching drives at a power down and reboot.

 

If interested, do a Google search on Kingwin kf-91-bk. I use these in several machines.

 

neil

[sendblink23]

the code is a string for the com.boot.plist that hides a partition in Chameleon. say you don't want your System Reserve partition to show up and it disk1s1 the string is Hide Partition, and key would be hd(1,1)

 

thanks for the detail

 

You are rebuilding your desktop system; have you thought about having your hard disks in removable modules? There are inexpensive hard disk tray systems that allow you to physically switch hard drives without having to open the case. You switch computing environments by switching drives at a power down and reboot.

 

If interested, do a Google search on Kingwin kf-91-bk. I use these in several machines.

 

neil

 

Thanks, but I don't plan on buying anything extra for this case... but eventually I will buy it since you gave me a good idea for a future project for another build.

 

Anyways guys I solved my issue which was way simpler: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=23056

 

Terminal:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

 

Adding this in that file:

LABEL=System\040Reserve none ntfs ro,noauto
LABEL=Untitled none ntfs ro,noauto
UUID=UUID-OF-MY-SYSTEM-RESERVE-PARTITION none ntfs ro,noauto
UUID=UUID-OF-MY-UNTITLED-PARTITION none ntfs ro,noauto

 

Ctrl + x
y
Enter

Reboot

 

And after booting up it worked, they didn't mounted.