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Dual-formatting a USB stick

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tbob

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I have a USB drive that I want to format into two partitions - a FAT32 side for PC/MAC, and then a Mac-only side that is HFS+

Does anyone know any tools that will do this?

I'm running WinXP Pro, which is quite limited in its formatting capabilities. On the OSX side, I can partition and format like I want to, but every time I try to format FAT32, it creates an extra, tiny (like 32kB or something) partition that shows up on my PC as an extra drive.

I have one USB drive already formatted the way I want (two partitions, the primary being FAT32, and the second being HFS+), but can't remember how I did it, as it was years ago. 1GB is no longer sufficient for my USB stick!

Thanks en avance,
-T
 
Somehow was able to do it all within OSX disk utility. Using the "Master Boot Record" setting (I think), I created a first Fat32 Partition and a 2nd partition that was HFS+ -- somehow, the 5th or 6th time I did it, it didn't create little 32kb partitions at the beginning and end of the disk.
 
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