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Subject: Re: External HD & partition's - please help
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:40:55 +0100
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"Neil Hindry"  writes:

> 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.

Dual booting? Boot to Ubuntu.

Resize the windows partition when in Ubuntu using gparted. create a new
partition in the resulting space as ext3 for Linux. YOu might consider
also creating a FAT32 small partition for "shared" files which can be
read/written by both OSs.

Consider backing things up first.
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