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From: "Aming" 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: External HD & partition's - please help
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:19:02 +0800
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"Neil Hindry"  дÈëÓʼþ
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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.
>
you may try the PQmagic(PowerQuest CO.)  in windows.
the software can reduce the size of  the partion(ntfs or fat32),
other partion can be formatted for linux .
 good luck!

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