Boot Camp drive shows up as CD or DVD

I have partitioned my drive to run boot camp and Vista. I have my finder preferences set to hide Hard Disks and External disks from the Desktop. I want CDs, DVDs and iPods to be shown.
For some reasons my Windows partition shows on the desktop when I tick on the CDs DVD etc option.
Is this right? Is there anyway I can hide my windows partition from the desktop without turning off the CD option.
Thanks in advance
PS. Vista was instaled under the beta version of Bootcamp. This error started happening once I upgraded to 10.5
Message was edited by: KWells1979

Try this: Boot Windows. Then rename your Windows drive in Explorer.
eg. C:\Windows ---> C:\.Windows
That "." (dot) will hide it in Mac OS.
If you can live with that
Hope this is helpful, David

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