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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 15 Mar 2010 18:37
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:34:58 +0000, Howard.not(a)home.com (Howard)
wrote:

>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

Shrug. Not something I've ever seen, or heard of - you'd think it
would be widespread if it was standard behaviour of some sort...

Have you been into your bootcamp since the change, apart from today?

Cheers - Jaimie
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From: Avalon on 16 Mar 2010 12:26
On 15/03/2010 3:40pm, Howard 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

Yes the Default name is 'BOOTCAMP', it's so you don't accidentally
format the wrong partition in Windoze.

I changed mine to 'Bootcamp' which is more subtle and less shouty :)
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