Hey, so I have a question about the new partitioning features in Leopard. Right now, I have a 750 GB external hard drive, and it has two HFS+ partitions, but I want to make it have two partitions, one HFS+ and one either NTFS or FAT for use on windows, however, I already have a lot stored on one of the current partitions, so I can't just copy that back to my computer and reformat the drive completely. I was planning on trying to find a friend's external drive that I could borrow to put my files on while I reformat mine, but then I heard that Leopard can reformat on the fly, and since I was planning on getting Leopard, I was wondering if it would be able to do what I need.
Basically, I need to make the second partition (it only has about 2GB of files, so I could easily just put that on my computer's internal harddrive) into a NTFS or FAT partition. However, I am pretty sure that the current partition scheme wouldn't accept a FAT or NTFS partition (I forget what kind I used, but I'm pretty sure it was apple something). Forgive my ignorance, as I don't know much about filesystems, but my question is, with leopard, is it possible to change the partition scheme, and create/delete partitions without reformatting the entire drive? Also, I am still on PowerPC, so I can't use Bootcamp to do it.
Basically, I need to make the second partition (it only has about 2GB of files, so I could easily just put that on my computer's internal harddrive) into a NTFS or FAT partition. However, I am pretty sure that the current partition scheme wouldn't accept a FAT or NTFS partition (I forget what kind I used, but I'm pretty sure it was apple something). Forgive my ignorance, as I don't know much about filesystems, but my question is, with leopard, is it possible to change the partition scheme, and create/delete partitions without reformatting the entire drive? Also, I am still on PowerPC, so I can't use Bootcamp to do it.