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How to partition an external HD?
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bucephalus
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Mar 21, 2007, 05:32 PM
 
Hi all,

I just got a Mercury external firewire HD from OWC. I currently have Bootcamp installed in my mini. When I boot up in Windows, the HD is not recognized. Is there a way to partition the new drive so that I can use one partition with Windows and the other with OSX? I'd like to set aside about 50gb for an NTFS partition. Is this possible? TIA.
     
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Mar 21, 2007, 06:21 PM
 
You could partition the disk using Disk Utility into a 50 GB FAT32 partition, and the other whatever format you need. Then boot into Windows and reformat the FAT partition as NTFS.
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