External MBP hard drive - windows and OSX compatible?

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I'm using my old 2006 MBP hard drive as an external one and would like to make it usable for both windows and mac. Is this doable, and if so how?
 
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So I think I need to reformat it. Is it possible to have it reformatted to work on windows and still support time machine on the mac side?
 
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Not without a third party driver such as MacDrive. Reason is because Time Machine will only backup to a drive formatted as HFS Extended Journaled.

However, you can partition the drive into two partitions: HFS+ and FAT-32.
 

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