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    What happens if I eject a hard drive partition?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by passive101, Jul 12, 2008.

  1. passive101

    passive101 Notebook Deity

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    I am dual booting with XP on a 14GB partition. I noticed that I can right click the windows partition and choose to eject it.

    Would that be perminant or would it come back after I restart?

    I'm not planning on doing it on purpose or anything, but curious what would happen.
     
    passive101, Jul 12, 2008
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  2. zambie

    zambie Notebook Consultant

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    good question... i want to know the answer to that as well... ! :)
     
    zambie, Jul 12, 2008
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  3. Luke1708

    Luke1708 Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    try it and see what happens!!
     
    Luke1708, Jul 12, 2008
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  4. dbam987

    dbam987 wicked-poster

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    I think ejecting the HD would just unmount it. Nothing would happen to the partition, it just wouldn't be accessed by OSX. It wouldn't come back immediately until you re-mount it using the Disk Utility in OSX.
     
    dbam987, Jul 12, 2008
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  5. cdnalsi

    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    Nothing will happen with the partition. It will just unmount it.
    You can mount it back using Disk Utility.
     
    cdnalsi, Jul 12, 2008
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  6. circa86

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    it will not permanently unmount the partition unfortunately, there are ways to go into terminal and keep the windows partition from mounting.
     
    circa86, Jul 13, 2008
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