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:
- Connect the hard drive to a Windows machine, and wait for the FAT32 partition to mount.
- Open My Computer and right-click the FAT32 partition and select Format.
- Format the partition with an NTFS filesystem.
- 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.)
