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Adam
Ok, so I have a portable hard drive and wanted to install an os on it? How would I partition it for multiple OS's?
Answer
You would do it the same you would do for an internal drive.
Open up diskmanagment by typing "diskmgmt.msc" in the "run" field and partition away.
But, installing an OS on a portable drive will do nothing for you.
When you install the operating system, it configures itself for that particular computer. If you try to take that portable drive and hook it up to a different computer, it will try to reconfigure itself for the new computer.
This will cause duplicate drivers, system resource conflicts and memory management issues. In other words, you will have a mess of error messages, freezing, hangs, and the OS likely will not even load up.
You would do it the same you would do for an internal drive.
Open up diskmanagment by typing "diskmgmt.msc" in the "run" field and partition away.
But, installing an OS on a portable drive will do nothing for you.
When you install the operating system, it configures itself for that particular computer. If you try to take that portable drive and hook it up to a different computer, it will try to reconfigure itself for the new computer.
This will cause duplicate drivers, system resource conflicts and memory management issues. In other words, you will have a mess of error messages, freezing, hangs, and the OS likely will not even load up.
How can I partition my portable hard drive to save files both from my MAC and from an old PC?
mr blonde7
I just want to save a ton of files from my MAC to my portable hard drive and if possible, also save files from my PC. I was told the hard drive can be 'partitioned' but have no idea how. I'm fairly clueless regarding all things tech so please use keep it simple LOL.
Answer
You have two options.
1) You can format the drive to FAT32 (MS-DOS in OSX) to make it both PC and Mac compatible. This will allow it to be used on both types of system without partitioning. This is the best option, except that this format won't allow file transfers of single files larger than 4GB in size.
2) You can follow the link below to learn how to use Disk Utility to partition your drive, created two partitions on the one drive, format one for Windows(NTFS) and one for OSX(Max OS Journaled). This will give you storage space for both Operating Systems, but you wouldn't be able to copy items between the systems. By default, OSX cannot read and write a NTFS drive, and Windows cannot read and write to a Mac OS Journaled drive.
http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilitypart.htm
You have two options.
1) You can format the drive to FAT32 (MS-DOS in OSX) to make it both PC and Mac compatible. This will allow it to be used on both types of system without partitioning. This is the best option, except that this format won't allow file transfers of single files larger than 4GB in size.
2) You can follow the link below to learn how to use Disk Utility to partition your drive, created two partitions on the one drive, format one for Windows(NTFS) and one for OSX(Max OS Journaled). This will give you storage space for both Operating Systems, but you wouldn't be able to copy items between the systems. By default, OSX cannot read and write a NTFS drive, and Windows cannot read and write to a Mac OS Journaled drive.
http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilitypart.htm
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