formatting external hard drive with two different partition schemes?

hi all,

i'd like to format my lacie external hard drive with two partitions:

1. HFS+ partition as a bootable clone of my internal drive
2. FAT32 partition readable by any windows (and mac) machine

i'm creating my partitions with disk utility, but i hit a snag when choosing a partition scheme...apparently i cannot choose a different scheme for each partition.

so when i format the drive with GUID, the FAT32 partition is not even recognized by windows XP. but when i format the drive with master boot record (MBR), the HFS+ partition is not bootable...

i achieved this on my prior external hard drive, but cannot remember how. any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

anyone have any ideas? i know this is possible because i had my prior external drive setup this way, i just cannot remember how.

al2o3cr said:

BTW, why FAT32 instead of NTFS?

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thanks for the link! although i haven't totally read through it yet, because it looks kind of complicated. i wish i can remember how i setup my old external hard drive - it was a few years ago, and it wasn't complicated at all. i wonder if disk utility in leopard somehow made this type of thing easier?

also, i'm sticking with FAT32 so that my friends' macbooks can read the drive - none of them have NTFS (even though i do).