How do I rename the Windows disc partition?

Skyrider007 · Jul 20, 2007

After installing Boot Camp 1.3, when I log-on into OS X - there will be two hard discs on the desktop: one is "Macintosh HD" and the other is "Untitled". I've tried and tried to rename the "Untitled" disc to "Windows HD" but the name field is locked. Is there a way to change this?

cwa107 · Jul 20, 2007

Skyrider007 said:
After installing Boot Camp 1.3, when I log-on into OS X - there will be two hard discs on the desktop: one is "Macintosh HD" and the other is "Untitled". I've tried and tried to rename the "Untitled" disc to "Windows HD" but the name field is locked. Is there a way to change this?

You can't write to an NTFS drive or partition from Mac OS. However, you can do so from Windows. All you need to do is rename the drive from within Windows itself. It will then appear correctly in OS X.

bobtomay · Jul 20, 2007

Thanks cwa, hadn't really tried to change mine since I usually don't have the internal drive displayed on the desktop, but was wondering where to go.

Skyrider007 · Jul 20, 2007

cwa107 said:
You can't write to an NTFS drive or partition from Mac OS. However, you can do so from Windows. All you need to do is rename the drive from within Windows itself. It will then appear correctly in OS X.

Cool, thanks for the tip. I didn't know it was this easy.

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