Time machine question

I just recently bought a external hard drive for my new macbook and backed up my files using time machine. However, I would like to use my external drive for my pc as well as my macbook. My question is should I back up my music files separately in order to open them on my pc? Any help would be appreciated thanks.

Phill A.

It would require that you partition the external hard drive - one partition for Time Machine (HFS+) another to backup your music files, preferably formatted to FAT-32 for ease of transfer to a PC.

Whether or not you should do it that way is up to you. If you want the same music files available for your PC, then backing them up to a separate partition would be easier.

Regards.