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damianslame · Nov 18, 2009, 04:33 PM

I have 4 drives installed in my Mac Pro.

1 & 2. Have OSX
3. Is a Data Drive
4. Is a Windows Drive

How do I get my Windows drive to not show up at boot. More so not try to be read by the OSX partition. Its a raptor drive (older) so its hot and loud. It will just keep searching if I don't "eject" it. Its really annoying...

This is just something I would like to know how to fix so I don't have to "eject" every time I restart my computer.

Thanks,
Damian

Andy8 · Nov 18, 2009, 07:57 PM

You mean "Select Drives to Mount"?

damianslame · Nov 20, 2009, 04:08 PM

I guess I dont really know what it is called.
I just dont want one of my internal drives to boot when OSX boots up.

reader50 · Nov 20, 2009, 05:59 PM

One possible answer - you could move the Windows drive to an external enclosure. With a separate power switch - turn the enclosure on only when you need it.

Doc HM · Nov 21, 2009, 01:29 PM

You can only set all drives to show on the desktop, or none, via finder preferences. You can't select drives on a case by case basis, which would be useful.

You can manually unmount individual drives using disk utility but they will mount back up on restart.

Big Mac · Nov 21, 2009, 08:07 PM

You can automate the dismount with a script of some sort.