Can I Partition an External HD for multiple formats

[Saladsamurai]

Hello there Perhaps this is a stupid question, I am not a computer whiz by any means.

I just got a Western Digital Passport external HD. I am going to be running both Windows and OS X on my MBP. I am only using the WD Hard Drive for backup purposes. I was hoping that I could partition it into 2 drives: one for my windows machines and one for my MBP.

So I would need one drive as NTFS (I would be transferring files >4GB so I think FAT32 is out) and one drive Mac journal.

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks,
Casey

 

[zachsilvey]

It's really easy, just open Disk Utility and go to the "Partition" tab and partition it into two one HFS+ and one FAT32. Then in Windows reformat the FAT32 partition to NTFS (as OS X doesn't have native support for it).

A second option is a third party NTFS plug-in for OS X that would allow you to both read and write to a NTFS partition. Like NTFS-3G http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/

 

[Saladsamurai]

It's really easy, just open Disk Utility and go to the "Partition" tab and partition it into two one HFS+ and one FAT32. Then in Windows reformat the FAT32 partition to NTFS (as OS X doesn't have native support for it).

A second option is a third party NTFS plug-in for OS X that would allow you to both read and write to a NTFS partition. Like NTFS-3G http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/

Ok great! I will give this a shot after work. Thanks for your time