Creating a partition on an external drive

[Dman]

I have an external drive that's formatted for use on a Mac. However, I'm now thinking of using a PC at work to do the editing I don't have time for at home and would use my external drive to ferry the files between home and work.

Is there any way of creating a partition for Windows on the drive without formatting it? There's too much on there to put on my Mac so I can't do that and then format it, but from what I recall that's the only way I can.

Unless someone out there can tell me otherwise :shrug:

 

[chrisgeary]

Assuming the drive is partitioned using all the space, then you'd either need to resize the partition (try ubuntu live CD and gparted or your Mac may be able to do that) or try MacDrive for Windows. If you could start again, FAT32 would be the ideal format as its compatibile with Windows and Linux variants.

 

[Dman]

Hmmm, I think this gives me the excuse I need to buy another drive.

Cheers

 

[chrisgeary]

 

[Robert Davies]

If it's an intel mac.... With 10.5....

[thinks]

Can't you use BootCamp Assistant to shrink the existing Mac partition and create a Windows partition?

[/thinks]

-Rob

 

[Dman]

If it's an intel mac.... With 10.5....

[thinks]

Can't you use BootCamp Assistant to shrink the existing Mac partition and create a Windows partition?

[/thinks]

-Rob

Just tried it but it only gives me the option to partition the Mac HD. No joy in disk utility either.

Cheers anyway.

 

[rockfall]

have you had any joy with this yet? i need to do the same thing.

 

[Chappers]

You could try using an application such as MacDrive, or MacDisk.

These should let you read HFS formatted disk on a windows machine