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Both Mac and PC partitions on one HD?
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Ruahrc
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Nov 18, 2004, 11:07 PM
 
I am thinking of getting an external FW HD as a backup for both my Powerbook and my desktop PC. It would be nice to be able to back up both computers onto a single drive, as then I would not need to buy two drives.

Is it possible to have 2 different partitions on one hard drive? One would be FAT32 for the windows PC and the other would be HFS+ (or whatever macs use) for my powerbook. They would be direct image copies of the hard drives on my computers, if that matters any.

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BLAZE_MkIV
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Nov 19, 2004, 01:25 PM
 
I have a FW HD set up just like that.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...30613121738812
(Last edited by BLAZE_MkIV; Nov 19, 2004 at 01:31 PM. )
     
   
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