[dragonbong]

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone has created multiple partitions so that both Windows and OS X can access a common folder. Say 1: 32gb partition for a common folder, 1 for OSX and 1 NTFS for Windows. The partitions would be made b/4 using boot camp obviously. Would this work?

Cheers,

[Barefoot Matt]

I think bootcamp only allows you to make the two partitions. You can, however, format your windows drive as FAT32, and then you can both read and write to it from OS X. I find that's sufficient, as I can just transfer things over from OS X when I need them. There's also some third party program (Mac Disk?) that lets you access mac disks from windows.

[dragonbong]

Yah, boot camp only does 1 for you hence doing the partitions before using bootcamp. The purpose of having the extra partition would be so that one would not have to reboot into the other OS and have access to the "shared" partition in their own environment. The FAT32 would be for sharing and NTFS for the windows portion. I was just wondering if this would work? Theoretically I think it would.

[Macola]

If you get this to work, please post back. That's the partition scheme I'd like to have, too.

[ghporter]

While I don't know of a built-in method to get this to work, a third party partition manager such as PartitionMagic should do the trick. Install it under Windows and use it to subdivide the NTFS partition into one NTFS and one FAT32. You will likely have to ensure that the Mac boots to Windows automatically to get PM to do this for you correctly; it cannot (at least the version I have) operate on the partition that Windows is running on while running Windows, so it has to boot into the "preboot environment" to do its thing.