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    Partitioning/Formatting External Hard Drive

    bobw, Thanks for the link. I suspect, as the partitions were created in Windows, that will result in a "Mac OS Extended" file system in one partition and FAT32 in the other, which is what I already have, but that the "Mac" partition still won't be bootable, because the Partition Scheme is...
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    Partitioning/Formatting External Hard Drive

    Thanks, but with five PCs as well as the MacMini it is more important for me to have Windows accessing the external drive normally than to be able to boot the Mac. The drive will hold "Acronis True Image" backups, which need to be accessible if a PC is booted with a CD and the drive also needs...
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    Partitioning/Formatting External Hard Drive

    I am trying, without success, to partition & format an external hard drive so that the first 40GB can have a bootable backup copy of my MacMini's hard drive (using "SuperDuper") which means using "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" as the file system and "Apple Partition Map", instead of Master Boot...
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