Formatting a Harddrive For NTFS & FAT32

[shane0mac]

I was wondering if someone knew how to create two partitions on a hard drive, one being NTFS and one being FAT32.

Anyone??

Thanks

 

[CanadaRAM]

Put the drive in a PC
Macs cannot format NTFS, AFAIK

 

[shane0mac]

Right, hence the reason why i would like two partitions. I should sepcify that this is an external drive already formatted to NTFS. I was hoping there was someone else on here that has done this before or at least had the know how to provide a little guidance.

 

[CanadaRAM]

If you want only a NTFS and a FAT32 partition on the drive, Put it in a PC to partition it. Don't expect a Mac to write to or to reliably read the NTFS partition.

OSX cannot modify a NTFS partition, other than to remove the partition. Then, the Mac can create Linux, Mac HFS or FAT32 partitions but NOT (unless you do it through BootCamp) a NTFS partition.

Bootcamp with Windows can format a NTFS partition on a Mac drive for the Windows area, but this has to be an INTERNAL hard drive.

 

[ddekker]

external drive

I have had a NTFS drive hooked to my mac for a long time now (read below to see why) it reads great.. can't write... I played with having part of it FAT32, sounds like maybe you are running a PC and a mac... well writing to it via the network has been my best solution so far... Read on..

http://trialsoftheswitch.com/index.php/2006/10/04/mac-ntfs/

hope it helps..

DD

 

[floatingspirit]

OSX cannot modify a NTFS partition, other than to remove the partition.

How ? How?

 

[yellow]

BootCamp removes NTFS partitons.

 

[floatingspirit]

BootCamp removes NTFS partitons.

AH! Done deal. Thank you.