![]() Partition the USB drive with GUID partition table first partition Fat32 (or exFat) and the second HFS+ (8GB minimum to fit OSX)Ģ. Here's the deal.Įquipment: a USB drive of 16 GB larger (try to find one that is fast too), a drive or partition with a minimal OSX build or your liking (10.6.7 for me was 7.2 GB), a running mac, a windows (virtual) machine (I used parallels 5 with Windows 7)ġ. I finally got it done and I don't know why it works, but it does. Two partitions one bootable mac partition and one that can be read and written by both macs and windows machines. I did not test this with a hard drive, with a different bus than USB, or under Windows Vista, but I assume these cases follow the same behavior. I tested this with a USB flash drive under Windows 7 Pro and under XP Pro, and both only recognized the FAT32 volume when it was the first one. If you set the HFS+ partition as the first one, Windows won't be able to see the FAT32 partition and will tell you that the disk has to be formatted. To be able to use it under Windows, you also have to make sure the partitioning scheme is set to Master Boot Record (MBR). If you ever want to divide a drive into two partitions, one formatted as Mac OS Extended (HFS+) and the other as FAT32, and to be able to access the FAT32 partition from Mac OS X and Windows, just make sure you set the FAT32 partition as the first one on the drive when you partition it with Disk Utility. This may be evident to some people, but I was a little surprised that my first attempt at it failed. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
December 2022
Categories |