[videian28]

is there any way I can make a windows friendly partition and a mac only partition on the same external drive using disk utility? I know that I can choose the ms-dos format and go between that way, but I seem to be running into alot of errors with long file names or invalid ones using that method, and it is much slower when doing large backups.

[videian28]

anyone?

can I do this

[Sod Off Sadr]

what's stopping you from trying? Just partition the drive and format the way you want. If you can't format one for windows, just connect it to a wintel box later and format that partition, or format and partition the drive from a windows box, then use the mac to reformat one partition for mac.