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Back up Windows and OS X on one hard drive
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 952296" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>I suspect that both the setup difficulties and the backups failing after a period of time are due to the way the drive is formatted. Drives formatted with recent versions of Windows are usually NTFS while Macs currently use HFS+.Time Machine is expecting HFS+. Here's an overview I wrote a few months ago about Time machine that might fill in the gaps <a href="http://www.atpm.com/15.03/howto.shtml" target="_blank">ATPM 15.03 - How To: Time Travel: Introduction to Time Machine</a></p><p></p><p>I have seen a hint suggesting that it is possible to create one external drive that has both NTFS and HFS+ partitions but haven't created one yet so I am not sure how reliably the drive would perform. <a href="http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080411155517808&query=HFS%2B+and+NTFS" target="_blank">Create an HFS+/NTFS/FAT32 external drive - Mac OS X Hints</a> I suggest reading all of the comments. Some of the later comments simplify the process a bit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 952296, member: 131855"] I suspect that both the setup difficulties and the backups failing after a period of time are due to the way the drive is formatted. Drives formatted with recent versions of Windows are usually NTFS while Macs currently use HFS+.Time Machine is expecting HFS+. Here's an overview I wrote a few months ago about Time machine that might fill in the gaps [url=http://www.atpm.com/15.03/howto.shtml]ATPM 15.03 - How To: Time Travel: Introduction to Time Machine[/url] I have seen a hint suggesting that it is possible to create one external drive that has both NTFS and HFS+ partitions but haven't created one yet so I am not sure how reliably the drive would perform. [url=http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080411155517808&query=HFS%2B+and+NTFS]Create an HFS+/NTFS/FAT32 external drive - Mac OS X Hints[/url] I suggest reading all of the comments. Some of the later comments simplify the process a bit. [/QUOTE]
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