Can I Hide the XP Partition on my OSX Desktop?

[Chack]

It's just sitting there, calling itself "Untitled" and looking ugly :/

Is there a way to hide this volume so that I don't have to see it on the Desktop and in the Finder?

EDIT: Ok, so I found out that I can unmount it in DiskUtility, so maybe there is a way to do that automatically on OSX startup? An AppleScript or something perhaps.

 

[kewpid]

Boot back into XP. Right-click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management

Then rename the disk to something beginning with "." (a period). It should then be invisible to the Mac Finder.

 

[Chack]

That is a good idea. Here is what I did instead, though:

I made an applescript that is just

do shell script "diskutil unmount \"/Volumes/Untitled\""

saved it as an application, went to Users in SystemPrefs and added it to my Startup Items. Now when I restart it runs this app and unmounts the partition.

Of course, I would have to make another script that would mount it and launch Parallels, so maybe I will just use your idea instead.

Thanks!

 

[Chack]

Yes, your approach was much more elegant. Worked perfectly.

 

[joeyslaptop]

Even better!

This one is an AppleScript. Just open Script Editor and cut and paste this in. Change "NameofDisk" to your actual disk name and then run the script.


tell application "System Events"
set visible of disk "NameofDisk" to false
end tell
tell application "Finder" to quit
delay 1
tell application "Finder" to launch


This way doesn't require a startup script to run every time. It still shows up in DiskUtility.

 

[stadidas]

I tried this using:

tell application "System Events"
set visible of disk "Untitled" to false
end tell
tell application "Finder" to quit
delay 1
tell application "Finder" to launch

Untitled is the name of the disk on the desktop, but after Finder re-launches, it is still visible.