10.4: Create an Intel-bootable HFS+/NTFS external drive

Jun 30, '06 07:30:05AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

To make an external bootable hard drive with both HFS+ and NTFS file systems, do the following.

First use Disk utility to partition the drive. Make the first partition HFS+ and the second partition as MS-DOS (FAT32), making sure you go into 'Options...' and check the GUID radio button (to make the HFS+ partition bootable on Intel). Then follow these steps to complete the process:

  1. Connect the hard drive to a Windows machine, and wait for the FAT32 partition to mount.
  2. Open My Computer and right-click the FAT32 partition and select Format.
  3. Format the partition with an NTFS filesystem.
  4. Remove the drive from the Windows machine, connect it to an Intel Mac, and install a disk image built for Intel Macs. (You can try a Mac OS Install Disk, but this is how I did it.)
[robg adds: I haven't tested this one.]

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