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From: "Neil Hindry" 
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Subject: External HD & partition's - please help
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:21:03 -0000
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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.

What I need to know is how I go about doing this?
Do I need to reduce the size of the partition that already exists on the 
disk (I assume that when the whole HD is used it is still classed as a 
partition)?

Do I reduce the partition size in Windows (that is if it needs to be done)?
Do I create the new partitions in Linux?

I am not very knowledgeable where partitions are concerned so please do not 
be too technical.

I hope you can help me.

I appreciate any help or information given.

Thanks! 

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