Installed Bootcamp and it works just fine, but 2 questions...

[Racktacular]

I have a Macbook and have 2 questions:

1) I have lost the ability to tap on the mouse pad and click. It actually scrolls IE/firefox while in XP (by doing the double finger drag), but I can't tap on the pad. I have to use the actual mouse button, which I hardly ever do. Is that normal? Anything I can do to activate tapping? BTW- tapping works fine when I load up OSX.

2) When I reboot OSX, I now have to HD's on my wallpaper. One is named "Macintosh HD" and the other is named "Untitled". Obviously the "untitled" one is Windows XP, but (a) do I need it there (can I delete it?)? and (b) how can I change the name to Windows XP or something? I've tried to change the name, but it won't let me.

 

[iBookG4user]

2) When I reboot OSX, I now have to HD's on my wallpaper. One is named "Macintosh HD" and the other is named "Untitled". Obviously the "untitled" one is Windows XP, but (a) do I need it there (can I delete it?)? and (b) how can I change the name to Windows XP or something? I've tried to change the name, but it won't let me.

Yes, you need it there, you can't delete it. And I think you can change the name, although I've forgotten how, I haven't used Boot Camp in a while.

 

[Wells]

Yes, you need it there, you can't delete it. And I think you can change the name, although I've forgotten how, I haven't used Boot Camp in a while.

I renamed mine the usual way - click the icon, then click on the name and edit it. Did that not work?

 

[Racktacular]

I renamed mine the usual way - click the icon, then click on the name and edit it. Did that not work?

That does not work. I can't figure it out and doesn't make much sense why I can't do it.




---> One more question. When I start up my Mac it defaults to Windows XP. Why? I want to tell my Mac to use XP. Not have to hold down OPTION everytime to switch from XP to OSX. Is there a way to change this?

 

[M@lew]

You probably installed it formatted NTFS. You need to right click My Computer from within Windows and go to Properties. Then edit the name within there.

As for the second part, you go to the System Preferences or Control Panel and go "Start Up Disk" Then choose which partition you want to boot from.

I swear 80% of people don't read the Boot Camp Manual which you're told to do. The first part is understandable but the Start Up Disk seems to be asked all the time.

 

[tennismanclay]

When you try to change the name the usually way why cant you do it, what does it say.

I simply double clicked the name and changed it...

 

[M@lew]

When you try to change the name the usually way why cant you do it, what does it say.

I simply double clicked the name and changed it...

I think you can only do that if it's formatted FAT32.

 

[sonarghost]

you can go to your finder>preferences and under "general" you can choose to hide your hard drives on the desktop.

 

[DoFoT9]

you can go to your finder>preferences and under "general" you can choose to hide your hard drives on the desktop.

or just put a period (.) infront of the harddrive name

 

[phatphil]

You probably installed it formatted NTFS. You need to right click My Computer from within Windows and go to Properties. Then edit the name within there.

As for the second part, you go to the System Preferences or Control Panel and go "Start Up Disk" Then choose which partition you want to boot from.

I swear 80% of people don't read the Boot Camp Manual which you're told to do. The first part is understandable but the Start Up Disk seems to be asked all the time.

^ Yeah, be sure to format as FAT32.

 

[InSides]

Actually, it does not really matter whether you format FAT32 or NTFS, as long as the renaming is a concern. When in Windows, right click the Windows partition, select Properties and simply rename.

 

[Racktacular]

Thanks for all the help guys. I got it to load in Mac first.

M@lew, i am trying to figure out the tapping feature but I can't right click. Normally I would two-finger tap for right click. I tried the CTRL-click as well but that doesn't work either. So how do I right click on My Computer? Ans you say to rename. What do I rename to? These are probably stupid questions but I am not very computer savvy. THANKS!

 

[Racktacular]

OK, so I hooked up my mighty mouse and now I can right click. What am to rename though? The computer name under system properties?

- Signed confused and stupid.

 

[M@lew]

Yep you right-click My Computer and go to Properties. As for the trackpad, you can't "click" by tapping it. You need to put 2 fingers on the trackpad and click with the mouse button.

 

[Racktacular]

So I changed the computer name and I restarted in XP, but I still can't tap the trackpad to click. I hate using the bar (left click). Is there anything else that can be done to allow the trackpad to work like it is supposed to?

 

[M@lew]

So I changed the computer name and I restarted in XP, but I still can't tap the trackpad to click. I hate using the bar (left click). Is there anything else that can be done to allow the trackpad to work like it is supposed to?

Nope.

 

[hardercore]

With the disk named "Untitled" on my computer, I just eject it. It's formatted to NTFS so I can't read or write or rename it, so I just drag the icon into the Trash/Eject button as soon as I'm on my own desktop. Then it's gone and out of the way for your Mac OS X session, and does not affect Windows in any way. You can still boot from it by holding Option whilst starting up, and at any time you can go back into Disk Utility and mount it again.

 

[M@lew]

You can still read and copy file off NTFS drives.