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   From: "Neil Hindry"    
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   Subject: External HD & partition's - please help   
   Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:21:03 -0000   
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   I wonder if you can help me.   
   Last week I brought a Maxtor 320GB external HD.  It was already formatted    
   for Windows, I know this because when I plugged it in to a USB port Windows    
   XP recognised it straight away and I was able to read & write to and from    
   it.   
      
   What I want to do is partition the Maxtor external HD so I can use 1    
   partition for Windows files and another partition for Linux files. I want to    
   do this as I can then use it to backup important data files from both OS's.    
   For information I am using Windows XP Pro & Ubuntu Linux.   
      
   What I need to know is how I go about doing this?   
   Do I need to reduce the size of the partition that already exists on the    
   disk (I assume that when the whole HD is used it is still classed as a    
   partition)?   
      
   Do I reduce the partition size in Windows (that is if it needs to be done)?   
   Do I create the new partitions in Linux?   
      
   I am not very knowledgeable where partitions are concerned so please do not    
   be too technical.   
      
   I hope you can help me.   
      
   I appreciate any help or information given.   
      
   Thanks!    
      
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