One harddrive, with some partitions and one of them in FAT32?

[Sceneshifter]

Hello,

For moving movies etc... between computers I would like to have one partition of my external harddrive to be formatted in fat32, so it has no problems with OS X nor with Windows. Is this in any way possible? I mean, I'd like one partition to act like a 'usb stick' if you understand what I mean, no compatibility issues whatsoever..

Possible? If so, how?

Thanks!

 

[SilentPanda]

You can do this. Disk utility should be able to do it for you. It won't cause any problems (knock on wood eh?).

 

[Sceneshifter]

awesome!

Damn I can't express how much I like OS X, it's just fantastic.
FAT32 the best option by the way, or should I pick something else?

 

[SilentPanda]

FAT32 the best option by the way, or should I pick something else?

FAT32 is your best option for going between Windows and OS X. It may even be the only option (aside from possibly FAT16).

It's not an OS X thing though. Most any OS will allow you to partition a drive with multiple file systems. Although I don't think Windows allows for HFS type partitions...