partitioning external drive for mac and winblows

lilmill · lilmill #1 (**permalink**)

11-06-2007, 09:20 PM

I just bought a lacie 1tb external drive and am going to use it to back up the winblows pc and the MBP. My question is how should I set up the drive. I partitioned it with 200 gig set to a mac os extended. (since the MBP only has a 160 gig drive) The other 800 or gig I plan on partioning to fat32 so I can access from both systems?What is everyone lesedoing in this situation??

mac0s9user · mac0s9user #2 (**permalink**)

11-06-2007, 09:53 PM

lol...winblows. That sounds like a perfectly reasonable partition scheme to me. Thats how I would run it.

lilmill · lilmill #3 (**permalink**)

11-06-2007, 10:07 PM

decided to go with a 400 and 600 split. 400 for the mac and 600 for winblows. As I see it when time machine runs the file size on the drive will increase as its storing previous times.

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lilmill #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 08, 2006 Posts: 162	11-06-2007, 09:20 PM I just bought a lacie 1tb external drive and am going to use it to back up the winblows pc and the MBP. My question is how should I set up the drive. I partitioned it with 200 gig set to a mac os extended. (since the MBP only has a 160 gig drive) The other 800 or gig I plan on partioning to fat32 so I can access from both systems?What is everyone lesedoing in this situation??
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Member Since: Sep 18, 2007 Location: Guam Posts: 1,004 Mac Specs: Gateway2000 P5-60. 66Mhz and 128 MB RAM.	11-06-2007, 09:53 PM lol...winblows. That sounds like a perfectly reasonable partition scheme to me. Thats how I would run it.
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