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Partitioning for HFS+ and NTFS on same external USB drive
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<blockquote data-quote="RMC2800" data-source="post: 774251" data-attributes="member: 78748"><p><strong>How to put HFS+ and NTFS on the same Drive</strong></p><p></p><p>I figured it out, and it's relatively easy to do. You can partition your drive without losing any data already stored on it. This works if you have a hard drive that's already set as NTFS. You need both Windows and Mac to do this.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>1. Download the Windows program Acronis Disk Director. This program will partition your hard drive and keep all the files intact!</p><p></p><p>2. Connect your external drive to windows and open the program. Choose the drive you wish to partition.</p><p></p><p>3. Set the partition size to whatever you want and set the new partition to be blank with no set file system on it.</p><p></p><p>4. The program will partition the drive. My 1 TB drive only took about 25 minutes to partition.</p><p></p><p>5. Connect the external hard drive to Mac and open Disk Utility.</p><p></p><p>6. In Disk Utility select the blank partition you just created and click on erase. From there you can choose to create the volume format as Mac OS Extended.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's it. It is not impossible and relatively easy to do!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RMC2800, post: 774251, member: 78748"] [b]How to put HFS+ and NTFS on the same Drive[/b] I figured it out, and it's relatively easy to do. You can partition your drive without losing any data already stored on it. This works if you have a hard drive that's already set as NTFS. You need both Windows and Mac to do this. 1. Download the Windows program Acronis Disk Director. This program will partition your hard drive and keep all the files intact! 2. Connect your external drive to windows and open the program. Choose the drive you wish to partition. 3. Set the partition size to whatever you want and set the new partition to be blank with no set file system on it. 4. The program will partition the drive. My 1 TB drive only took about 25 minutes to partition. 5. Connect the external hard drive to Mac and open Disk Utility. 6. In Disk Utility select the blank partition you just created and click on erase. From there you can choose to create the volume format as Mac OS Extended. That's it. It is not impossible and relatively easy to do! [/QUOTE]
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