Partitioning an external harddrive

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  1. hzamani, May 25, 2010

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    Hey All,

    I plan on purchasing an external hard drive when I get my MBP. I was wondering if I could partition it to FAT and HFS?

    HFS for time machine wireless back ups (Do they overwrite eachother?)
    And FAT for transferring files between computers.

    Would this work, how do I achieve this?
     
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  2. miles01110, May 25, 2010

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    It's just a matter of using Disk Utility's "Partition" tab. It's pretty straightforward.
     
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