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Hadron wrote:
> "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.

Or you can simply partition and format the drive using ext3, then load 
ext2fsd on Windows to access it. I use it all the time and makes it easy 
to move files back and forth.
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