Hey It can't be done, you can't run Windows off an external disk of any sort, firewire or USB2. Though on really new computers you can boot off USB2 memory sticks which is sweet.
Thanks, David Moyle ---------- Bertram, Western Australia Mb: 0427 888 257 Confidentiality Notice: The contents of this email are confid.. Were you meant to recieve this? If not, delete it. Please? -----Original Message----- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Law Sent: Sunday, 18 February 2007 12:54 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Partition in external firewire disk to run Windows Hi, I have a 100Gb external hard drive connected to my eMac via Firewire and am running Tiger 10.4.8 I have an old PC with an internal 4gb hard drive, and a small profile box - ie there are no spare bays inside it. I want more capacity to store PC files without having to use Virtual PC on the Mac. I was hoping to create two partitions on the 100Gb drive and format one for the Mac and the other of about 20Gb to format for Windows to store data. The HDD enclosure has firewire and USB ports. I suspect the PC is using USB 1 - it's pretty old and I know it will be slow. I cannot work out how to format the HDD into partitions using Disk Utility, nor to format one of those partitions into a Windows format. It can format into Unix, would that do?? I may have some OS9 Formatting software that may be able to do the job, but would the disk be readable by Tiger if I used an old application to write new disk drivers? Is what I am trying to do feasible? Is it possible with Disk Utility? Or other alternatives? Thanks Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
