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   From: ray    
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   Subject: Re: External HD & partition's - please help   
   Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:20:56 -0700   
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   On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:21:03 +0000, Neil Hindry wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   AFAIK these devices are usually formatted with fat32 which both Linux and   
   MS can already read and write.   
      
   >    
   > 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)?   
      
   yes.   
      
   >    
   > 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 would recommend gparted for doing resizing and partitioning. Caveat -   
   you can't work on anything that is mounted - for obvious reasons. Gparted   
   has a nice GUI which makes it very easy to repartition and resize.   
      
   >    
   > 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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