RedSox Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 As the title says, I booted windows HD with OSX HD attached, windows found new hardware, I clicked ignore. When I went to put BACK the OSX HD, the other OSX (file drive) was not seen in system nor in Utilities....disk fixer thing. So I paniced, but then I placed it on another SATA port and all was fine. So, seeing how users are booting with Paralles and bootcamp, is there a way that in theory, you could have say 2 (two) swapable HD's, one with OSX and a OSX file drive, the OSX OS is able to be pulled out, and then on windows, in the intel PCI slot, have 4 HD's and SWAP in the WIN XP HD and have it NOT see the other OSX file drive. If users are using bootcamp and stuff, surely there must be a way to protect it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48406-almost-had-a-heart-attack-any-way-to-prevent-windows-from-seeing-osx-hds/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neonkoala Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Why do you want to hide it? Windows can't write to it while it has HFS (unless you have MacDrive) so unless it decides to format it (which it wouldn't do without your explicit knowledge) you have nothing to worry about. If you do insist on "unmounting" it as such, go into Disk Management from the Administrative Tools and find the OS X drive, right click on whichever partition it is and click assign drive letter, you can then set it to nothing so it is effectively unmounted. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48406-almost-had-a-heart-attack-any-way-to-prevent-windows-from-seeing-osx-hds/#findComment-346704 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSox Posted April 15, 2007 Author Share Posted April 15, 2007 Why do you want to hide it? Windows can't write to it while it has HFS (unless you have MacDrive) so unless it decides to format it (which it wouldn't do without your explicit knowledge) you have nothing to worry about. If you do insist on "unmounting" it as such, go into Disk Management from the Administrative Tools and find the OS X drive, right click on whichever partition it is and click assign drive letter, you can then set it to nothing so it is effectively unmounted. Umm, maybe the title of my header didn't come through. What happened was was I had a OSX file drive attached, swapped out a MACOSX OS drive and replaced it with a WinXP drive, then windows BOOTED up, said it found new hardware, I clicked on the X to close it and went on my business. Then when I swapped back in the OSX OS drive the other OSX file HD did not show up, so windows did in fact do something to the drive. It was only after I placed the secondary drive on another SATA port was OSX able to see and mount the drive - in fact, before that, it didn't even show up in system utilities. Just want to make sure this never happens again. My idea is this.... One COMPUTER, indstead of three, if I can get the NATIT DUAL display to work as right now my GPU graphic card NVIDIA is working..... On this ONE computer, which is one of those mini ATX boards, I will add a PCI PATA card, which OSX shouldn't see anyway, then I will have four WINDOWS AUDIO/VIDEO drives. This computer will also have three OSX drives, one system, the other files. Then, what I will do is get two (2) of those REMOVABLE Hard Drive things and when I want to use WINDOWS for audio/webdesign/video, I pull out the OSX OS drive and put in the WINDOWS OS drive, and viceaversa. Does this make sense? Advice appreactied. Peace! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48406-almost-had-a-heart-attack-any-way-to-prevent-windows-from-seeing-osx-hds/#findComment-347147 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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