I am setting up an External backup Hard drive to primarily back up my iMac and also store extra photos, videos, songs, etc. However, I would also like to partition of a certain amount of the 320GB drive to due an emergency backup of a separate Windows PC. Is this even possible? If so, does anyone know how I should go about partitioning it. I would also be curious if anyone knows how to create an emergency bootable backup for my iMac as well? Thanks for any insight.
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Setting up Backup Harddrive
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If you format everything as FAT32 then both Windows and Mac will be able to read & write with the drive. Carbon Copy Cloner can clone your drive for you as backup if you like. If you want it to be bootable then I think you'll need to use Mac OS Extended (Journaled) formatting for that particular partition. 