Fat32 and HFS+

alpimac99

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MacBook Pro 2.16 Core 2 Duo 120g, Power Mac Quicksilver 2002ED , 160gb iPod Classic, 8gb 3 iPhone
just wondering if i can do a fat 32 partition and a HFS+ on the same EHD???
 
schweb

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Yep, that should work
 
shahvikram123

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If you do that can you access the fat32 drive in a windows pc?
 
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Yes, but you won't be able to access the HFS+ partition.
 
Macwillis

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15" Macbook Pro, 2.16GHZ C2D,120 GB HDD 3GB Ram
i have a 250gb hdd with a backup hfs+ parition of 120gb for my macbook pro and a fat32 partition for windows installs and a hfs+ one for mac installs\
works great
altho i ovs. cant acsess my hfs+ stuff using windows.
 

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