Secondary hard drive question (dual boot)

[psykick5]

Okay so if I had say a 256GB SSD, I partition it straight down the middle so I can get a 128GB Lion partition and turn the rest into a Windows 7 partition. Then I have another hard drive in the Optibay (let's say 750GB), would this drive be able to be read by both OSes and even shared?

 

[BanterClaus]

You could just partition the other HDD so it had a windows and mac format yes.

 

[psykick5]

You could just partition the other HDD so it had a windows and mac format yes.

But there's no partition that could share?

 

[thundersteele]

I think with bootcamp you can read OSX formatted drives in Win7.

If you want to read and write the drive from both OS, I'm not sure what to choose. But I think that's in general a bad idea, even if it's just "storage."

 

[awer25]

I did that and it works fine. I have a 120 GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. I partitioned it as follows:

SSD: 80GB (HFS+) OSX & Mac apps; 40GB (NTFS) Windows 7, Win7 apps
HDD: 960GB (HFS+) Mac home folder; 40GB (NTFS) Windows storage

Originally, I just put Windows on the HDD, but after using the SSD I couldn't even bear to boot Windows - it had to go on the SSD. I only use Windows for games, so I don't need too much space. I also have MacDrive installed in Windows and NTFS for Mac installed in OSX, so each can read from each other without having to use FAT32.

 

[psykick5]

How would you transfer files between partitions, then?

 

[awer25]

How would you transfer files between partitions, then?

Copy/paste...same as usual. All four partitions show up in both Windows and OSX.

 

[heisenberg123]

Copy/paste...same as usual. All four partitions show up in both Windows and OSX.

But it will be read only unless its formatted for the os your running

 

[iMacDragon]

But there's no partition that could share?

not without third party software, paragon for eg do drivers that will read/write hfs+ in windows and ntfs in os x, making either one an option.