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AVR2
May 9, 2008, 09:37 AM
I have a portable 120Gb HD that is currently formatted HFS+. It would be useful to split it into two 60Gb partitions and format one of them as FAT32 to work with a Windows XP machine I have to use frequently.

Does anyone know if the XP box will actually recognise the FAT32 partition, or will the fact that the HFS+partition exists on the same disk just terminally confuse it?

Installing MacDrive on the XP box isn't an option, unfortunately.



Eidorian
May 9, 2008, 09:40 AM
Yes, Windows will recognize the FAT32 partition. I've had a similar setup.