On 18/02/2007, at 8:40 AM, David Moyle wrote:
Hey
It can't be done, you can't run Windows off an external disk of any
sort,
That was not required ! His message is quite clear . He only wants
to store windows data .
I think if you format the HD as MS-Dos ,
Partition it ,
then format the Volumes as required ,
you will be able to store Windows files OK ,
and OSX files OK on the Mac formatted volume ( HFS+) ,
but do not try to take the Mac OSX files to an OS9 system . It will
show as a PC file .
I have not expressly tried this but have run into problems that
suggest it should work.
Bob
firewire or USB2. Though on really new computers you can boot off USB2
memory sticks which is sweet.
Thanks, David Moyle
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From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Tim Law
Sent: Sunday, 18 February 2007 12:54 AM
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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
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