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Partitioning a drive for use with time machine and windows

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roger6106

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I have a 300 GB external hard drive. Using Windows I made a 200 GB NTFS partition. My plan was to later make a 100 GB partition for Time Machine. I have been looking through disk utility, and I have not been able to figure out how to add a partition without erasing the whole drive. I have lots of things stored on the 200 GB NTFS partition, so I don't want to erase the whole drive.

Does anyone know how to add a Mac partition without losing the NTFS one?
 
Not possible. The only way to partition a disc is to erase the entire thing. Just backup everything you have on it to you computer or another external HDD. Partition, and then replace.
 
I figured out how to do it. I formatted the empty space as a NTFS partition using Windows. I then connected the hard drive to my Mac, and used Disk Utility to erase that partition and reformat it as HFS.
 
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