[Abbas]

As the title says, today I wanted to bootcamp into Vista to play a game and I'm not getting that drive to chose as the startup disk anymore. The drive is there, on my desktop and I can double click it and see all the folders etc. The only change I made was installing MacFuse and NTFS 3G. Would that have anything to do with it?

[jacteh]

I am having the same problem, except I have Windows XP SP2 installed instead of vista. I too installed MacFUSE and ntfs-3g installed. I know the frustration of it all. Grrr...

There is a thread about this over at the apple support forums, where I'll probably go and post now. I'd imagine that the question is more likely to be answered there than here, especially if more users post to say "me too".

Here's a link to the thread:
Apple - Support - Discussions - XP no longer shows up as a startup disk ...

In the mean time, if you come across a solution, please contact me.

[ghporter]

jacteh, when you upgraded your OS, did you reinstall Boot Camp? As I understand it, it's not installed by default. This may have something to do with it-a new version of Boot Camp comes with Leopard, and it may be seeing the boot data differently.

[Sven G]

The only way, for now, to have the Boot Camp volume show up in Startup Disk with NTFS-3G installed and active is to have it mounted by Apple's integrated NTFS driver (while NTFS-3G can still mount other available NTFS volumes read-write, of course).

To do so, open a Terminal window and do this:

cd /Volumes/NameOfYourBootCampDrive

sudo pico .ntfs-readonly

... and then save the file with the usual ctrl-O, enter, ctrl-X; finally, unmount and remount (with Disk Utility) your Boot Camp partition.

This, BTW, will create a (invisible from OS X) .ntfs-readonly file at the root of your Boot Camp volume, thus telling NTFS-3G to bypass this volume and let it be mounted by Apple's read-only driver.

Of course, you will have read-only access to the Boot Camp volume, but it will still show up in Startup Disk.

Let's hope they'll eventually fix this in better ways (see full integration between NTFS-3G and Startup Disk)...