Stop drives from mounting at startup.

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I have found information regarding stopping an NTFS volume from mounting at startup, but nothing about HFS or Fat-32 drives.

I have 2 drives that I don't need every day and don't need to have mounted automatically. One is HFS+ and one is Fat-32. I would really like to stop them from mounting at startup. Does anyone know how to accomplish this?

OS 10.5.1

Edit: Maybe should have mentioned these are both partitions on one external USB HDD.
 
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You could just switch it off

If you need it later Disk Utility can manually mount it
 
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Right, sorry, I forgot to mention that there is a third partition on the drive which I DO use every day. Otherwise, that would be a very good solution.
 

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