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Hi,
Just installed Boot Camp on my new Fusion Drivew 27" iMac. All is well, except that on my previous iMac, I could see and access my OS X partition from within Windows. On my new iMac, for some reason the OS X partition isn't visible in Windows.
It's not a particularly big deal, but can anyone with the same setup confirm, please? I'm assuming it's something to do with the Fusion Drive.
Thanks,
J
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
Did you download and install the Windows Support Software (download in BC, install in Windows)
Yep, everything's totally up to date (and, indeed, working perfectly). I think it's something to do with Windows not being able to see the CoreStorage volume made up by the Fusion Drive.
No, it's because (in standard form) windows can't read or write to a Mac partition. When you install Boot Camp dribvers applehfs.sys gives windows read access (per your previous installation). Reinstall the support softwre.
Got a feeling you might be wrong about that in this case. Boot Camp does indeed install the ability for Windows to see the HFS+ partition – as it did on my non-Fusion Drive iMac – but I don't think that's the issue here, as my Boot Camp driver/support installation is fine. I honestly think it's a Fusion Drive thing – that Windows cant see the combined CoreStorage volume. Hopefully someone else can confirm that they, too, can't see their HFS+ drive in Windows on a Fusion Drive iMac. 🙂
I have been having this issue as well. I called AppleCare support and asked about this anomaly, and the guy and his manager had no idea that Boot Camp ever did this. Actual quote from 15 minutes ago:
[Me] "So in answer to my question, Boot Camp no longer supports access to the OSX partition. Is this right?"
[Tech Support Guy] "Yes."
Lol, wut? I found some post on MacRumors that had the drivers for this feature from Boot Camp 4.0, but I found the same files in Windows/System32/Drivers. I installed Windows 7, but my friend who installed Windows 8 has the same problem, so at least it's consistent. I agree that they just need to patch the drivers to support Fusion Drive. I suspect it will be fixed whenever the patch comes out to fix the 3TB Fusion Drives with Boot Camp.
I know this thread has been dead for a while, but it looks like this is still an issue. I've just installed Win 8 on a 27" Late 2012 iMac with a 1TB Fusion Drive, and can't see the OS X volumne through windows.
It's not really a problem, I have a NAS I can use to transfer things, but it doesn't stop it being a little annoying. Luckily I won't need to use Windows all that much!
Mac HD not visible in Boot Camp
