On Dec 23, 2005, at 12:54 PM, James Britton wrote: > I"m new to the group and I have Scott Granneman to thank for that.
Welcome aboard. > 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. What do you want to use the drive for? That is, what will you store on it? I ask because both Windows and OS X will read/write FAT32. So one option is to create a FAT32 partition. The disadvantage is that FAT32 has a 32 GB limit on its partitions size under Windows[1] and has a max file size of 4 GB. So, if your needs are within those limits, this may be an option. Another option that may be possible is to create just an NTFS partition. I remember reading somewhere that OS X now has support to read/write NTFS. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find that link now. The disadvantage is that this may only be a rumor or may only be available with the latest and greatest OS X. [1] http://www.google.com/search?q=fat32+limit+microsoft Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
