SUre, go for it. You have the right idea.

On Dec 26, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Traci wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Ok, for the last hour or so, I've been reading material on the web about 
> using an external hard drive between mac/pc's.  
> 
> If I understand this correctly, I can partition the external drive into 2 
> sections.  One can be fat32 for windows and one can be mac journal something.
> 
> I don't plan on swapping data between machines, I just want to put this 250gb 
> drive to best use.  I've been using it for Months backing up my windows 
> machine, now I want to use it for my Mac, but I don't want to lose my windows 
> data.
> 
> So, for example:
> 20GB is dedicated to windows,
> and the rest is dedicated to Mac.
> 
> What do you guys think?  Is this doable or recommended?
> 
> Thanks so much,
> Traci
> Sent by Macbook Air Mail
> 
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