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Dual Boot with separate drives - hide windows drive in OS X

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Hey guys,
is there a method to permanently hide the windows drive in OS X? I got an Skylake GA Z170N-Wifi with i3 6100 and 2 sata drives using clover as boot loader. Dual boot with windows is working fine for me but I did not find any solution for this problem so maybe someone here can help me.
 
Hey guys,
is there a method to permanently hide the windows drive in OS X? I got an Skylake GA Z170N-Wifi with i3 6100 and 2 sata drives using clover as boot loader. Dual boot with windows is working fine for me but I did not find any solution for this problem so maybe someone here can help me.
Forum search key words = Clover Configurator and Hide Icons
 
thanks I already searched my ass off but could not find anything.. :thumbup:
 
It was the second one but the first answer helped me, too. Thank you very much for your quick reply
 
Probably not useful for OP anymore, but I'll leave this solution here for anyone finding the thread later.

Go to "Apple -> About This Mac -> System Report -> SATA/SATA Express" when booted into MacOS and click on the drive, then find the volume that you want to hide from the MacOS desktop. Find the value for Volume UUID and copy it.

Now do the following:
  • Load up Terminal and type "sudo nano /etc/fstab" (without the quotation marks)
  • Enter your password if prompted
  • Type in "UUID=XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX none ntfs rw,noauto" (replacing the Xs with your pasted UUID from the intro and leaving the hyphens in place)
  • Press Ctrl+O
  • Press Enter to confirm the filename and save
  • Press Ctrl+X to exit nano and then close Terminal
If you reboot, the next time MacOS loads, it won't mount the volume you specified. If you want to mount it manually, you can do so from the Disk Utility app. Bear in mind that you need to specify the correct volume file format for this to work ("ntfs", "ExFAT", "msdos" (for FAT32), or "hfs" (for a Mac drive)). If in doubt, you should be able to see the file system just above where you copied the Volume UUID from in the intro.
 
Probably not useful for OP anymore, but I'll leave this solution here for anyone finding the thread later.

Go to "Apple -> About This Mac -> System Report -> SATA/SATA Express" when booted into MacOS and click on the drive, then find the volume that you want to hide from the MacOS desktop. Find the value for Volume UUID and copy it.

Now do the following:
  • Load up Terminal and type "sudo nano /etc/fstab" (without the quotation marks)
  • Enter your password if prompted
  • Type in "UUID=XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX none ntfs rw,noauto" (replacing the Xs with your pasted UUID from the intro and leaving the hyphens in place)
  • Press Ctrl+O
  • Press Enter to confirm the filename and save
  • Press Ctrl+X to exit nano and then close Terminal
If you reboot, the next time MacOS loads, it won't mount the volume you specified. If you want to mount it manually, you can do so from the Disk Utility app. Bear in mind that you need to specify the correct volume file format for this to work ("ntfs", "ExFAT", "msdos" (for FAT32), or "hfs" (for a Mac drive)). If in doubt, you should be able to see the file system just above where you copied the Volume UUID from in the intro.

Thanks so much for the easy instructions, worked like a charm! :clap:
 
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