 |
 |
Uppercase/Lowercase Labels?
|
|
|
|
|
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jul 2006
Status:
Offline
|
|
I hope this is the right forum... searched but didn't find much. I know it's a stupid question/concern but it's sort of bugging me, so here goes:
I have two partitions showing up in my Finder and Desktop. One is for OS X (called Macintosh HD) and the other for Windows XP (called Windows XP) under Boot Camp. I keep renaming the Windows partition to Windows XP but it keeps reverting it to WINDOWS XP whenever I reboot. Is there a workaround for this? It's annoying...
Here's a picture for reference:
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Madison, WI
Status:
Offline
|
|
You're pretty much stuck with it, AFAIK. It's a Windows thing...
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jul 2006
Status:
Offline
|
|
Are you guys seeing the picture I posted? It doesn't show up for me...
Windows is being pretty annoying with Boot Camp... too bad Photoshop is almost unusable for me with Rosetta.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2005
Status:
Offline
|
|
I'm assuming your Windows XP partition is FAT32. FAT32 doesn't support multi-case volume names -- they just default to all uppercase when in OS X. My NTFS Boot Camp partition remains an anal retentive "Windows XP". ;-)
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jul 2006
Status:
Offline
|
|
But I thought OS X couldn't read/write to NTFS formatted drives? That's the only reason I formatted mine as FAT32.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2005
Status:
Offline
|
|
It can read NTFS, but not write.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Wrong forum-this is about Windows on a Mac, not about OS X, so it goes in the Alternative OS forum. And it IS a Windows thing. Specifically, as Tomchu says, FAT32 volumes uppercase their labels and there's nothing you can do about it. Me, I'd change it to just "XP" and take advantage of the fact that this label is inherently uppercase. 
|
Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2002
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Shawn_230
But I thought OS X couldn't read/write to NTFS formatted drives? That's the only reason I formatted mine as FAT32.
To rename a NTFS formatted Windows partition, get Properties on C: within Windows and one of the tabs in there will allow you to rename it. Mac OS X will respect this name change, different cases and all.
|
|
BayBook (13" MacBook Pro, 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 1TB HD) // BayPhone (iPhone 4, 32GB, black)
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Shawn_230
But I thought OS X couldn't read/write to NTFS formatted drives? That's the only reason I formatted mine as FAT32.
OS X cannot write to an NTFS volume, but it CAN READ from one. That's the really frustrating part for some people.
|
Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top