Thanks again David, I've realised I had selected the current partition in Disk Utility, rather than the root of the disk - therefore the options were different and restrictive.
Now I've selected the root disk I find the menu options in Disk Utility have changed and I can achieve what I wanted to. Ta Tim on 18/2/07 3:30 PM, David Moyle at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No > > For pure storage then it will be fine, if you format it in FAT32 format it > will work in Windows and Mac concurrently. Though you need to be running > Windows XP or Windows 98 providing that the external drive comes with > Windows 98 drivers. > > It should work via USB1 but at you said it will be slow! > > Thanks, David Moyle > ---------- > Bertram, Western Australia > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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 2:28 PM > To: WAMUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: Partition in external firewire disk to run Windows > > Thanks David, > > I was not trying to boot up from the external drive, just access stored > files - maps for digital mapping in particular, maybe games or other > programmes I thought I could instal in a DOS partition. > > Does your feedback still stand? > > Ta > Tim > > > on 18/2/07 9:40 AM, David Moyle at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > > > -- 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]>
