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Yabz · Yabz #1 (**permalink**)

10-29-2010, 10:15 PM

my sisters hard drive just malfunctioned and so she just went out and bought a new one without even attempting to fix it so i took it and bought a case that allows me to turn any sata 2.5" hard drive into a external hardrive. Now we want to backup our hardrives to this external hardrive but i use a mac and she uses windows. How do we backup 2 hardrives (with different operating systems) to 1 single external hardrive? the eternal hard drive is large enough to hold the contents of out harddrives at the same time plus have an extra 100gb available

chscag · chscag #2 (**permalink**)

10-29-2010, 10:40 PM

Create two partitions on the hard drive. Format the first one as HFS+ extended journaled for Time Machine and format the second partition as FAT-32 for the Win backup program. Neither will interfere with the other.

Use Disk Utility to create the partitions and do the formatting. Make sure you format the FAT-32 partition as MBR, do not use GUID! Select options at the bottom of the dialog and then select MBR. Disk Utility will default to GUID so be careful.

Yabz · Yabz #3 (**permalink**)

11-02-2010, 09:32 PM

will that work?

6string · 6string #4 (**permalink**)

11-02-2010, 09:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yabz

will that work?

Yep, it will work, assuming that the external HD isn't toast.
Chscag wouldn't lead you astray

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Member Since: Jan 23, 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 31,978 Mac Specs: 21.5" iMac 2.5 GHz i5, iPad 3rd Gen., 3 iPods	10-29-2010, 10:40 PM Create two partitions on the hard drive. Format the first one as HFS+ extended journaled for Time Machine and format the second partition as FAT-32 for the Win backup program. Neither will interfere with the other. Use Disk Utility to create the partitions and do the formatting. Make sure you format the FAT-32 partition as MBR, do not use GUID! Select options at the bottom of the dialog and then select MBR. Disk Utility will default to GUID so be careful. Community Guidelines
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Member Since: Sep 06, 2010 Posts: 32	10-29-2010, 10:15 PM my sisters hard drive just malfunctioned and so she just went out and bought a new one without even attempting to fix it so i took it and bought a case that allows me to turn any sata 2.5" hard drive into a external hardrive. Now we want to backup our hardrives to this external hardrive but i use a mac and she uses windows. How do we backup 2 hardrives (with different operating systems) to 1 single external hardrive? the eternal hard drive is large enough to hold the contents of out harddrives at the same time plus have an extra 100gb available
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