Partition Schemes- MBR vs GUID

[Zathu]

I have a drive that I currently have set up with a MBR scheme that has one NTFS and two HFS partitions. The NTFS and HFS partitions are for storage, but the second HFS partition is a bootable backup of my Mac OS X disk. I'm only able to read the HFS partitions in Mac OS 10.5, not the NTFS for some reason.

If I switched over to GUID, would I still be able to read a storage NTFS partition on a PC?

[joegomolski]

I don't think that will work.

The GUID partition map is only for use with OSX Leopard.

Why not buy an external HDD, their really cheap these days.

[shaybc]

it can be done, you can access your mac file system from windows, and you can access windows file system from mac (read write access as well).

please see the following links for further details:

How to Access NTFS (R/W access) from OSX (http://apple2pc.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-access-ntfs-rw-access-from-osx.html)
How to Access OSX drives from Windows (http://apple2pc.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-access-osx-drives-from-windows.html)

[merl1n]

The GUID partition map is only for use with OSX Leopard.


This is incorrect. The partition map is platform dependent, not OS dependent.

GUID Partition Mapping is for Intel processor machines
Apple Partition Mapping is for PowerPC processor machines.

This applies to both Tiger and Leopard as the Intel architecture will not work with any OSes previous to those.