on 2/28/02 8:02 AM, Michael Moss at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi iMacers! > I just bought a 60gb firewire/usb drive and would like to make two > partitions on it: one Apple Extended and the other PC (I guess that means > ISO). However, the Disk utility only seems to offer Apple formats. > > I have two questions: > 1. How can I format one partition of the disk so that a PC will be able to > see it. > 2. If I do that will OSX still be able to see that partition? > > Thanks, > Mike > My suggestion would be to first format on the Mac leaving however much free (unformatted) space you want for the PC. Then format the unformatted space on the PC. I would do Mac first as a Mac formatted drive has several small partitions at the beginning of the drive that you don't see. I don't know if the Mac will then be able to see the PC partitions or not. I would think so but I've never tried it. The PC will not read an HFS partition. There may be some 3rd party drivers that will allow the PC to read HFS but I don't know. If you want anything other than Mac (like Linux or possibly windows) to read the Mac partitions then be sure it's HFS (Mac OS) and not HFS+ (Mac OS Extended).
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