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Formating 2 OSes (Mac and PC on one data drive for husbnd and wife)

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TungFree

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My friend bought an externalUSB II 300 gig hard drive.
He want sot give 200 gig to his wofe for her Mac and 100 gig for himself on a lap top PC.
What is the best way o do this?

Neither partition neds its OS, it just will be booted up in either PC or Mac computer as an external Data disk.
 
Hmm, I tried doing this with Partition Magic and ran into trouble. (PM doesn't have a mac partition, per se, but they do have a Uunix partition, which OS X didn't like).

However, the best bet would probably be to use the disk utility in OS X to format and partition the drive. The only problem I see is that the only Windows partition that OS X allows is FAT32.
 
use disk management in windows to create the two partitions. use win disk management to format the 100 gb partition and then use osx's disk utility on the 200 gb partition. if you use fat32 formats, then both os's can read and write natively to the partition.
 
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