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   From: "Aming"    
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   Subject: Re: External HD & partition's - please help   
   Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:19:02 +0800   
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   "Neil Hindry"  дÈëÓʼþ   
   news:45e2de55$0$32016$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk...   
   > 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.   
   >   
   you may try the PQmagic(PowerQuest CO.)  in windows.   
   the software can reduce the size of  the partion(ntfs or fat32),   
   other partion can be formatted for linux .   
    good luck!   
      
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