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<blockquote data-quote="CrimsonRequiem" data-source="post: 754522" data-attributes="member: 62286"><p>You need to partition your external HDD using disk utilities.</p><p></p><p>Control + Click on your HDD and you should see a list of things you can do. Go down to where it says Partition.</p><p></p><p>Under Volume Scheme is a drop down list. You want to scroll down to two or how ever many partitions you want to make. Seeing as you just want to use it for your Mac and PC, I think two is enough.</p><p></p><p>After you finish making your partitions you click on each one and give it a name, and select what kind of partition you want it to be. For your Mac you probably want Mac OS Extended Journaled and you get to pick how many much space you want to allocate to that partition.</p><p></p><p>You do the same thing for the 2nd partition except under format you want it to be MS-DOS FAT.</p><p></p><p>That pretty much sums it up, your Mac will be able to read both of the partitions but your PC will only read the FAT partition. You need to keep this in mind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CrimsonRequiem, post: 754522, member: 62286"] You need to partition your external HDD using disk utilities. Control + Click on your HDD and you should see a list of things you can do. Go down to where it says Partition. Under Volume Scheme is a drop down list. You want to scroll down to two or how ever many partitions you want to make. Seeing as you just want to use it for your Mac and PC, I think two is enough. After you finish making your partitions you click on each one and give it a name, and select what kind of partition you want it to be. For your Mac you probably want Mac OS Extended Journaled and you get to pick how many much space you want to allocate to that partition. You do the same thing for the 2nd partition except under format you want it to be MS-DOS FAT. That pretty much sums it up, your Mac will be able to read both of the partitions but your PC will only read the FAT partition. You need to keep this in mind. [/QUOTE]
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