Macdrive, Icons.

[Bluey]

I used the xom solution for a while and loved it great development but i have now moved over to the bootcamp solution with a few things id like ironed out.

1 Macdrive 6.1 had no problems recognizing the OSX partition under xom but it doesnt see it under bootcamp .. i have read the other threads and people have had this problem but say its fixed with the latests version of Macdrive .. but im using the latests version.

2 i have changed the icons to the drives in osX and when i boot with the option key i see a changed icon on the osX drive but only a standard HDD icon for the XP partition does anyone know a way for it to show the nice glassy windows flag i made for an icon in OSX?

[chrisp]

2 i have changed the icons to the drives in osX and when i boot with the option key i see a changed icon on the osX drive but only a standard HDD icon for the XP partition does anyone know a way for it to show the nice glassy windows flag i made for an icon in OSX?
The firmware does not have a file system driver for NTFS, so it cannot read the volume icon from the Windows partition. I'm afraid there is not much we can do about that for now.

Once I have added Boot Camp support to rEFIt, you could use that and customize the icon, but I have not figured out how to do that yet, so don't hold your breath waiting for it.

[Bluey]

Ive formated it as Fat32
my nice icon shows up in osx as the glassy windows flag but if i hold down the alt(option) key and the 2 drives are displayed to choose between osx and xp my xp drive icon only shows the standard HDD where as the Osx drive shows my nice glassy apple icon ..

would be nice if you added that ability :)

i have bigger problems at the mo tho i tried to install the omega ati drivers and my MBP BSOD on my (which is wierd saying that about an apple machine) then it cant boot into safemode as it hangs on drivers.mup or somthing and it hans after a disk check in last good config :/

[Frischluft]

As for your problem 1) I can't help but only confirm. I have the same problem. It does not recognize my osx partition. I'm on a mac mini, my windows partition is formated as fat32.

I found this searching the knowledgebase:
http://assist.mediafour.com/index.php?_a=knowledgebase&_j=questiondetails&_i=32&nav=+%26gt%3B+%3Ca+href%3D%27index.php%3F_a%3Dknow ledgebase%26_j%3Dsubcat%26_i%3D1%27%3EMacDrive%3C% 2Fa%3E

Just not sure what they are triing to tell :/

[ajbaker]

I surprised by this. I have installed the trial version of MacDrive (as downloaded yesterday - 6 April) and it has absolutely no problem recognising my Mac partition on the same disk.

I have a MacBook Proo 100gb HDD. 70gb Mac HFS+, 25 Windows NTFS. The partitions were created using BootCamp - I had not used the XOM solution beforehand.

Could the fact I have an NTFS Windows parition be making a difference?

[Zepp]

1 Macdrive 6.1 had no problems recognizing the OSX partition under xom but it doesnt see it under bootcamp .. i have read the other threads and people have had this problem but say its fixed with the latests version of Macdrive .. but im using the latests version.

I had the same Problem, turns out that the latest version of macdrive has issues with v4.0+ of daemon tools and also alcohol 120%. (If you happen to be using them?)

http://assist.mediafour.com/index.php?_a=knowledgebase&_j=questiondetails&_i=77

I uninstalled daemon tools and the conflicting SPTD (SCSI Pass Through Direct) drivers it uses in v4.0+ using this tool:

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/download.php?mode=Download&id=87

Macdrive went back to seeing the HFS partition after doing so. I went back to v3.47 of daemon tools and everything now works fine.

[Frischluft]

That's intersting. I actually installed Daemon tools 4 before and figured that might be the cause for my problems. So i uninstalled it with no different result. However it really did feel like it didn't uninstall everything. Because when i reinstalled Daemon Tools it it didn't give me the warning about the kernel debugger issue again.

Thank you very much for the hint! After uninstalling the SPTD driver it works fine now.

[docbrody]

I surprised by this. I have installed the trial version of MacDrive (as downloaded yesterday - 6 April) and it has absolutely no problem recognising my Mac partition on the same disk.

I have a MacBook Proo 100gb HDD. 70gb Mac HFS+, 25 Windows NTFS. The partitions were created using BootCamp - I had not used the XOM solution beforehand.

Could the fact I have an NTFS Windows parition be making a difference?

Can anybody else confirm this, ie. Macdrive works when OSX = HFs+, XP = NTFS.

UPDATE Edit:
I can confirm that formatting the XP partition with NTFS and installing the latest version of MacDrive (6.1.0) does indeed work. I am able to read/write to the OSX HFS+ partition and an external Firewire400 HFS+ drive from XP. Of course I can only read from, but not write to, the NTFS partition from OSX