Is it possible to partition a removable hdd with 1 OSX and 1 Windows partition?

Raider · 3 Feb 2008 at 21:24

I'm trying to partition my external back-up drive so I can store Windows data on one partition, and Mac stuff on the other.

I'm currently starting my formating the whole drive as "MS-DOS" file system under Mac OSX. Is this a good starting point?

unknowndomain · 3 Feb 2008 at 21:43

All you need to is go to mac os x and open disk utility, when the drive is safe to wipe choose partition select the sizes you need and partition it then go to each partition on the left and format to the desired format.

Raider · 3 Feb 2008 at 21:44

unknowndomain said:
All you need to is go to mac os x and open disk utility, when the drive is safe to wipe choose partition select the sizes you need and partition it then go to each partition on the left and format to the desired format.

Yeah trying that at the moment, but I can't seem to start from scratch

Disk utility is just permanently stuck on "Preparing to erase.."

EDIT - It just changed to "Mounting drive" just as I typed that

Raider · 3 Feb 2008 at 21:47

Actually I've just created one huge 400Gb FAT32 drive instead. That seems to be the best option as both PC and Mac can read and write to that

unknowndomain · 3 Feb 2008 at 21:51

yup or install macfuse and use ntfs

unknowndomain · 3 Feb 2008 at 21:51

or for that matter install macdrive on your pc and use hfs+

wij · 3 Feb 2008 at 21:54

Raider said:
Actually I've just created one huge 400Gb FAT32 drive instead. That seems to be the best option as both PC and Mac can read and write to that

As long as you don't have any files larger than 4Gb you will be fine yes

Rambaud · 4 Feb 2008 at 13:14

unknowndomain said:
yup or install macfuse and use ntfs

This is what I have done for my flash drives, and seems to work fine.