Partion help for external HD PLEASE!

[domo256]

I just bought an external USB 2.0 160G hard drive. I have an intel Imac with bootcamp. I would like to partion the drive, so I can install a copy of OS 10.4 for an emergency startup drive... for this what format would I need for me to be able to boot?.. I know my older externals with my emergency system dont work now since I went to intel.... AND... since I have bootcamp.. I'd like the other partion to be able to be used as an external on the XP side... what format should this partion be in? and lastly... will I be able to use this partion on the mac side and drag files over to be used by XP, since I do a lot of editing, I hate having to burn to DVD-RWs and then booting up XP, pain in the butt..

Please help, it would be appreciated.

 

[yellow]

II would like to partion the drive, so I can install a copy of OS 10.4 for an emergency startup drive... for this what format would I need for me to be able to boot?..

HFS+, A.K.A. Mac OS Extended (journaled)

I know my older externals with my emergency system dont work now since I went to intel.... AND... since I have bootcamp.. I'd like the other partion to be able to be used as an external on the XP side... what format should this partion be in?

That depends. FAT32 if you want the Mac to read/write to it. NTFS if not. Or HFS+ & MacDrive for the Windows install.

 

[domo256]

thanks

wow.. that was less then five minutes... I love macrumors.. lol.