Hi all I just bought a Passport SE 1 Tb drive, and I need to backup two pc’s and a macbook. Is there any reason why i can’t simply create two partitions on the drive, one NTFS and the other in Mac format. I don’t need to share files across the partitions. Second, is there danger of losing the i…

no need to create two partitions you can do it that way but the chances of corrupting the partition are higher You can use NTFS-3G this will avoid having to format and loose info the app works to allow to write to windows formatted drives on your mac… just download on your mac and connect as i…

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Awopero April 5, 2012, 1:30pm 3

That’s not a problem you can create several partitions or you can format your drive into Fat 32.

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