RE: Partition in external firewire disk to run Windows 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 Adam Hewitt Sent: Sunday, 18 February 2007 10:08 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Partition in external firewire disk to run Windows He was wanting to run windows from said partition, only to use it to store data. Adam On 18/02/2007, at 9:40 AM, David Moyle wrote: > 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]> > > -- 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]> -- 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]>
