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    Assign a partition on a secondary drive to Windows

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by maverick1989, Sep 15, 2012.

  1. maverick1989

    maverick1989 Notebook Deity

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    Hello,

    I got a SSD for my MacBook Pro (Early 2011 model). I used a ODD caddy so I could still use my 500GB conventional drive that already had W7 and OS X Lion on it. So essentially, after I had both drives installed, I had two copies each of OS X Lion and W7. I then used Disk Utility during the first time of starting my machine after inserting the secondary drive and erased everything on the secondary. I partitioned it into two equal halves (again, using DU and the Mac OS X Journaled format).

    Now in OS X, I can see the drive and the two partitions. However, I want to assign one of them to Windows. I want to keep the second as extra storage space for my Mac. Is there any way to do this? BC assistant doesn't help here.

    Thank you
     
    maverick1989, Sep 15, 2012
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    KCETech1 Notebook Prophet

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    KCETech1, Sep 15, 2012
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    maverick1989 Notebook Deity

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    There will be no problems based on incompatibility here? I read the article in its entirety but I know how much the two systems hate each other so I was a bit worried.
     
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    no, absolutely no incompatibility issues at all. we use it in video editing and file transfers all the time.
     
    KCETech1, Sep 15, 2012
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    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    exfat is supported as a standard since win xp sp3. it also receives support from OSX. actually the best idea is to redirect all your docs, images, videos folders to that partition and share it (win via libraries) between the 2 OSes, its exactly what I do.
     
    Karamazovmm, Sep 16, 2012
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    Ok thank you all.
     
    maverick1989, Sep 16, 2012
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