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<blockquote data-quote="mrplow" data-source="post: 707369" data-attributes="member: 38928"><p>Assuming the data takes up less than half the available space then yes. </p><p></p><p>However...... I don't know of any mac tools to do this on-the-fly for NTFS/FAT32 disks(others may). OSX can do this for HFS+ drives. If you have access to a windows machine then there are a few tools that can do this. Partition Magic is the best IMHO.</p><p></p><p>Another way is to copy the data somewhere else. Re-partition and format the drive, then copy the data back.</p><p></p><p>I obviously don't know why you want to regress part of your disk to fat32 but if it's just so you can read/write to it from mac then you may wish to consider Paragon(commercial) or MacFUSE/NTFS-3G (free) as a way of allowing NTFS writes within mac.</p><p></p><p>HTH</p><p>mrplow</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrplow, post: 707369, member: 38928"] Assuming the data takes up less than half the available space then yes. However...... I don't know of any mac tools to do this on-the-fly for NTFS/FAT32 disks(others may). OSX can do this for HFS+ drives. If you have access to a windows machine then there are a few tools that can do this. Partition Magic is the best IMHO. Another way is to copy the data somewhere else. Re-partition and format the drive, then copy the data back. I obviously don't know why you want to regress part of your disk to fat32 but if it's just so you can read/write to it from mac then you may wish to consider Paragon(commercial) or MacFUSE/NTFS-3G (free) as a way of allowing NTFS writes within mac. HTH mrplow [/QUOTE]
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