Can a Western Digital MyBook external backup hard drive have 2 seprate HD's on them?

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Devon

I have a Western Digital MyBook Studio Edition. I want to backup my Mac, but I don't want to delete the backup files from my PC. Is it possible to backup 2 hard drives and keep them on the external hard drive?

Answer
you will need to partiton the hard drive

this turns one physical disk in to two disks that the computer sees

windows vista can do this

email me if you need help doing

WARNING partitioning can cause data loss so if you are doing this you need to back up your backed up data (sounds irish i know but if you dont do it and you lose data youve only yourself to blame) before doing the partition

Can I use (1) external Hard drive to backup information from a Mac and a PC?

Peter A

My wife uses a PC and I use a Mac with an interest in purchasing a external hard drive to back up our stuff. Is it possible to have two computers on different platforms share one external hard drive?

Any recommendations for external hard drives? Seagate? Western Digital?

Answer
Mac OS X and Windows understand seperate file systems, what you need to do is partition the hard drive, half NTFS (for windows) and half ext4, or whatever it may be. You should be able to do this via windows and MAc OS X, if you can't GPARTED will do the job for you.

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