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I have a Mac with a Windows drive that I occasionally boot to. Most of the time, I'm using the Mac, and the Windows disk always mounts and shows up on the desktop. I would like to keep it from showing up or prevent it from mounting at all if possible, without affecting the ability to boot to it when I want to. I found an answer on a blog that uses

$ chflags hidden /Volumes/Time\ Machine/

to hide the volumes. I will do that if there's no way to prevent mounting them. Thanks for any answers!

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What about automatically unmounting it as soon as it is mounted? – zwerdlds Mar 21 at 2:56
I use the tip described here: hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060930150059172 to stop one of my drives mounting at boot. It still appears in Boot Camp and Disk Utility, but it’s not mounted by default. Is that what you’re looking for? :) – Alex Chan May 3 at 14:14

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