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Partitioning portable HD
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Am interested in creating 2 partitions on a new portable HD (Western Digital 320 GB). The drive comes pre-formated in FAT (or FAT32, not sure) so that both a PC and a Mac can write to it. Having read some reviews, writing under XP is much faster, etc. to NTFS. Would appreciate any cautions and pointers/steps to creating both a NTFS and FAT partition so I can back-up both my XP SP3 desktop and a new iMac to this HD. ..it's been a long time since I used the DOS shell, etc., hopefully I can do this from the XP admin manager? Thanks much in advance. |
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Partitioning portable HD
From the Windows box, delete the fat32 partition using Disk Management,
create an NTFS partition of the required size, then plug the drive into your Mac and use Disk Utility to create a partition on the remaining space. -- ---- Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 Help Us Help You http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm "Marc" wrote in message ... Hi: Am interested in creating 2 partitions on a new portable HD (Western Digital 320 GB). The drive comes pre-formated in FAT (or FAT32, not sure) so that both a PC and a Mac can write to it. Having read some reviews, writing under XP is much faster, etc. to NTFS. Would appreciate any cautions and pointers/steps to creating both a NTFS and FAT partition so I can back-up both my XP SP3 desktop and a new iMac to this HD. ..it's been a long time since I used the DOS shell, etc., hopefully I can do this from the XP admin manager? Thanks much in advance. |
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Partitioning portable HD
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"David B." wrote: From the Windows box, delete the fat32 partition using Disk Management, create an NTFS partition of the required size, then plug the drive into your Mac and use Disk Utility to create a partition on the remaining space. -- ---- Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 Help Us Help You http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm "Marc" wrote in message ... Hi: Am interested in creating 2 partitions on a new portable HD (Western Digital 320 GB). The drive comes pre-formated in FAT (or FAT32, not sure) so that both a PC and a Mac can write to it. Having read some reviews, writing under XP is much faster, etc. to NTFS. Would appreciate any cautions and pointers/steps to creating both a NTFS and FAT partition so I can back-up both my XP SP3 desktop and a new iMac to this HD. ..it's been a long time since I used the DOS shell, etc., hopefully I can do this from the XP admin manager? Thanks much in advance. |
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