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   Subject: Re: External HD & partition's - please help   
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   Hadron wrote:   
   > "Neil Hindry"  writes:   
   >    
   >> 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.   
   >    
   > Dual booting? Boot to Ubuntu.   
   >    
   > Resize the windows partition when in Ubuntu using gparted. create a new   
   > partition in the resulting space as ext3 for Linux. YOu might consider   
   > also creating a FAT32 small partition for "shared" files which can be   
   > read/written by both OSs.   
   >    
   > Consider backing things up first.   
      
   Or you can simply partition and format the drive using ext3, then load    
   ext2fsd on Windows to access it. I use it all the time and makes it easy    
   to move files back and forth.   
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