Reformatting and Partitioning an external from my mac

Drastil · Drastil #1 (**permalink**)

10-13-2011, 08:55 PM

I have an external drive that's FAT format that I want to reformat with Disk Utility so that I can write to it on my Mac for the purpose of creating a Windows 7 partition on it. I've already reformatted the drive to Mac OS X (Journaled) so that I can write to it. A couple questions:

1) Is what I'm trying to do possible/viable?

2) If this has a possibility of working, was reformatting to Mac OS X (Journaled) the correct choice in Disk Utility?

Thanks.

chscag · chscag #2 (**permalink**)

10-13-2011, 11:39 PM

Since Windows 7 can not write to a drive formatted to HFS+ you will need a third party driver (MacDrive 9 = $49.95). It would be better to format the drive to FAT-32 as both Windows 7 and Mac OS X can read and write to it.

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Member Since: Jan 23, 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 31,991 Mac Specs: 21.5" iMac 2.5 GHz i5, iPad 3rd Gen., 3 iPods	10-13-2011, 11:39 PM Since Windows 7 can not write to a drive formatted to HFS+ you will need a third party driver (MacDrive 9 = $49.95). It would be better to format the drive to FAT-32 as both Windows 7 and Mac OS X can read and write to it. Community Guidelines
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Member Since: Oct 13, 2011 Posts: 1	10-13-2011, 08:55 PM I have an external drive that's FAT format that I want to reformat with Disk Utility so that I can write to it on my Mac for the purpose of creating a Windows 7 partition on it. I've already reformatted the drive to Mac OS X (Journaled) so that I can write to it. A couple questions: 1) Is what I'm trying to do possible/viable? 2) If this has a possibility of working, was reformatting to Mac OS X (Journaled) the correct choice in Disk Utility? Thanks.
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