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Search Tech-Forums - link takes you to our Forum's search page. Note: The following is only a text archive! To view the actual forum discussion, please visit our website at http://www.tech-forums.net Pages:1 XP partition and OSX partition on 1 external drive?(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: bzflag I have a 250gb OWC external firewire drive, a G4 iBook, and a desktop running xp pro. Currently I have tons of media on the drive and it is partitioned for use with the iBook. I just built my desktop machine and it would make more sense for the desktop machine to use the drive. I would like to partition close to 230gb of the disk for use with the windows machine, but keep a small partition for use in OSX in case I ever need it. The data does not need to be shared between the 2 computers, but the ability to write to the separate partitions is. Neither absolutely needs to be able to be used as a startup disk, but it might be nice if the windows partition could be. Is there any way of doing this? Posted by: The General Use Disk Utility (it's in /Applications/Utilities/) to format it as "MS-DOS filesystem" which is FAT32. Then it will work in full capacity on the iBook and on your Windows box. Posted by: dwayneford Hey so you have a external hard drive running with you mac did you have to buy any additional things to run windows. Because i have heard that you did. i just assumed that you just needed to use boot camp and partiction the disc. i haven't tryed it but this is what i have heard. is there something i need to buy? and can you just partition the external drive so that you can have half for mac os x and half for window xp? Posted by: macdude425 He has an iBook G4. It doesn't run Windows. He merely wants to have a shared partition he can take back and forth from his iBook to his Windows machine. Yes, you have to buy something to run Windows via Boot Camp - a Mactel, and a copy of Windows. That's it. Posted by: dwayneford ok what is a mactel and is there a speacial version of windows? Posted by: macdude425 A Mactel is a Mac made since January 2006 that has an Intel processor as opposed to the PowerPC processor. No - the only requirements are that it must be an SP2 copy of Windows XP Home or Pro (NOT MCE). Posted by: dwayneford yeah i have the new mac book pro that apperntly can handle running windows on it. is that all. Posted by: macdude425 When you download Boot Camp, read the directions provided [i]very carefully[/i]. Print them off if you fear you'll forget something. Don't forget to download the drivers. That's about it. Good luck! Posted by: dwayneford oh yeah i have it and the directions ok by any chance do you know if a downloaded verson of windows work? Posted by: macdude425 You mean a pirated version? Posted by: talldude123 Well, it might be downloaded and he used his own serial number, but I doubt that. Lets just stop here. Posted by: macdude425 Whatever. vBulletin Copyright ©2000 - 2003, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited. PPC Management vB Easy Archive Final - Created by Xenon |