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January 2nd, 2009, 05:20 PM
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1) Open Disk Utility. 2) Click on the device name in the left-hand sidebar. 3) Click the "Partition" tab. 4) Set up partitions -- one of 250GB, one of 750GB. 250GB as HFS+, 750GB as "unformatted" or "free space". 5) Partition away. 6) Take drive to a Windows computer and plug it in. 7) Launch "Device Manager" or whatever. Format the 750GB free space partition as NTFS. 8) There is no step 8.
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January 2nd, 2009, 06:25 PM
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Thanx ElDiablo, looks pretty clear! Now... before posting this thread, this is what i had tried to do! Actually i did the opposite, i started with making the partitions in Windows, made a primary, formatted it NTFS, then made a second primary and left it unformatted. Then i connected the drive to the Mac (already had macfuse installed). The NTFS partition was recognized, but i couldn't see the unformatted one. So back to windows again, format the unformated as NTFS, then back to OSX again, i tried to erase the 2nd NTFS partition as HFS+, but hey presto... the result was that the whole drive (both 1st and 2nd partition) was HFS+ partitioned! Why the heck did that happen? |
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January 3rd, 2009, 07:49 AM
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El Diablo i did as you said but when opening the Device Manager as you said, there was a 128MB empty unallocated space, how can i get rid of that or join it to the partitions already existing?
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#5
January 3rd, 2009, 09:44 AM
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Don't worry about that partition -- when going from Mac to PC or PC to Mac, sometimes the operating systems write Mac-specific or PC-specific partition information into a third partition. I wouldn't muck with that 128MB partition -- it's a tiny, tiny fraction of the 1TB of space you've got.
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January 3rd, 2009, 12:16 PM
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Just leave it be. It isn't automatically mounted, right? Worst case, joining it to something else might mess up the other partition. Best case, you _gain_ a measly 128 MB. Just leave it.
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