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From: Howard on 15 Mar 2010 16:44
Jon B <black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com> wrote:

> > Maybe. It is juts that I am CERTAIN it was somehting else. Maybe I am
> > being paranoid :)
> >
> Well it'll take a quick boot into Windows to test it, but if that works
> fine, it's all OK.

Tks for replying Jon. I will do that .... with trepidation - this
evening :-)

Howard
From: Howard on 15 Mar 2010 16:49
Mark Bestley <news{@bestley.co.uk> wrote:

> Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote:
>
> > Jon B <black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Snow Leopard v 10.6.2 and WindowsXP.
> > > >
> > > > All has been well since I got a new drive last year and reinstalled the
> > > > Bootcamp.
> > > >
> > > > However just now I booted up in Mac and ...
> > > >
> > > > I used to see two drives on my desktop. MacHD, and the partition for
> > > > windows (can't remember the name ..)
> > > >
> > > > But today I see MacHD and the windows one is called "BOOTCAMP".
> > > >
> > > > I am disconcerted. Should I worry ? It opens ok and the MacOS is working
> > > > fine... I have my backups done.. but don't want to have to go through a
> > > > resinstall again...
> > > >
> > > > Howard
> > >
> > > Think the default for the Bootcamp drive IS bootcamp, so unless you've
> > > renamed the drive, the windows one should be called Bootcamp.
> >
> > Maybe. It is juts that I am CERTAIN it was somehting else. Maybe I am
> > being paranoid :)
>
> Yes I noticed this too. I updated the bootcamp sofware when running
> bootcamp. When in OSX I noticed the chnage in name. I was running 10.6.2
> however I had not used bootcamp for several months so could have been a
> chnage in an earlier version

Interesting. I just checked my Time Machine and indeed it was a
different name three weeks ago.

Howard
From: Howard on 15 Mar 2010 16:49
Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote:

> Jon B <black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com> wrote:
>
> > > Maybe. It is juts that I am CERTAIN it was somehting else. Maybe I am
> > > being paranoid :)
> > >
> > Well it'll take a quick boot into Windows to test it, but if that works
> > fine, it's all OK.
>
> Tks for replying Jon. I will do that .... with trepidation - this
> evening :-)
>
> Howard

Booted up in Windows ok --- must be some oddity -- I hope.

Howard
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 15 Mar 2010 17:00
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:49:36 +0000, Howard.not(a)home.com (Howard)
wrote:

>Interesting. I just checked my Time Machine and indeed it was a
>different name three weeks ago.

I think you can only rename the drive while in Windows unless you have
a non-Apple NTFS driver, too.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
"I have an asteroid named after me. Isaac Asimov's got one too.
It's smaller and more eccentric." -- Arthur C. Clarke
From: Howard on 15 Mar 2010 17:34
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:49:36 +0000, Howard.not(a)home.com (Howard)
> wrote:
>
> >Interesting. I just checked my Time Machine and indeed it was a
> >different name three weeks ago.
>
> I think you can only rename the drive while in Windows unless you have
> a non-Apple NTFS driver, too.
>
So the Bootcamp system must have changed it.. or the MacOS system

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