I don't think that really answers my question. I'm trying to make 2 partitions on the same LaCie 250GB EXTERNAL drive: a windows partition and a Mac OSX partition. The drive is USB 2.0 EXTERNAL. I really don't care if I can boot from the drive, I just need a way of backing up certain files and transferring between the two systems occasionally
On 12/23/05, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 01:54 PM 12/23/2005 -0600, you wrote: > >Hi, > >I"m new to the group and I have Scott Granneman to thank for that. > >Here's my first post: > >I'm trying to take an external USB 250GB hard drive and make 2 partitions > >(one for Mac and one for windows) It only seems to let me do both > volumes > >in the same format. (I did this using Disk Utility for Mac) the built in > >Windows utility is a big pain so I haven't bothered with it really. want > to > >make the Mac partition 200GB and windows for the remaining... > > 1) I have found that most USB drives have to be formatted externally, as > many carriers only can create a MBR with FAT32. > > 2) SImplest solution would be to hang on a PC as a 2nd drive, then go to > <My Computer><Manage><Disk Manager>. Pretty much drag-and-drop GUI, .. > what > were you trying? > > 3) If you really want to initialize in the case, you will probably have to > create the first partition FAT32 (under 32GB), then enlarge. > > Lee > > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.cwelug.org/ > http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ > http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/ > -- James http://blog.jamesrbritton.com/ Lacie Lacier Lace Lacee Lucie Edit... Ignore all Add to dictionary transferring transforming transversing transfusing transpiring Edit... Revert to "transfering" occasionally occasional vocationally optionally Edit... Revert to "ocassionally" Lammer Lammed Lambert Lamer Lamed Edit... Ignore all Add to dictionary Trainman Grumman Gunman Gravamen Trainmen Edit... Ignore all Add to dictionary Simplest Simples Dimpliest Simpled Amplest Edit... Ignore all Add to dictionary _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
