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Eriamjh
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Apr 14, 2004, 06:17 AM
 
I just realized my PC notebook at work won't be able to mount my iPod as a FW device unless it is formatted as Fat32 (it is currently HFS+).

Is it possible to partition two ways and have one partition HFS+ (for music) and the other partition FAT32 for data?

I wish to use the iPod as an easy way to transfer data to and from the PC notebook.
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Apr 14, 2004, 08:29 PM
 
Is there no one who knows the answer to this?

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Apr 14, 2004, 10:37 PM
 
Just partition it for FAT32 and it can be read on the Mac side and PC side.

Or buy MacOpener to read a Mac volume on a PC.

I would recommend not partitioning it. I don't think it was intended to carry partitions.
     
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Apr 15, 2004, 02:22 AM
 
I once partitioned the drive and afterwards it was impossible to install the 1.3.1 operating system on it. Perhaps I made a mistake somewhere, perhaps not
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Apr 19, 2004, 07:32 AM
 
It looks like I can use mac opener to acces the files on the iPod from a PC without modifying the iPod.

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