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Create HFS+ and FAT32 partitions on one external drive
Authored by: birdz on Sep 03, '03 04:00:16PM
sorry guys, my idea is not working. the process described above does not contain any errors, but it does not provide you with a fat32 partition that windows will recognize.

obviously the way to store partitions is completely different in os x than in windows - or rather different in windows from all other systems.

what seems interesting to me: i reformatted my hard disk (after i finished my process) with dos / fdisk. i even formatted the partitions. and the astonishing thing is that in os x with pdisk still displays the partition map i had constructed before. so os x stores the partition map differently and even in a different place.

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Create HFS+ and FAT32 partitions on one external drive
Authored by: Pierre Duhem on Oct 23, '03 03:46:03AM

The partition table used by Apple is not the same as the one used under Windows and all Unix flavors.

Iomega and others have tried to build "mixed" partition tables (in particular for their "Tools" Zips). Having a look at what is on the disk gives a perfect idea of the quality of the software they sell.

Having a HFS/HFS+ partition and a FAT32 partition on the same disk relies necessarily on some hacks or on some holes offered by some utilities. I would not store _my_ files on such a disk.

Pierre Duhem



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