![]() I finally got it done and I don't know why it works, but it does. Two partitions one bootable mac partition and one that can be read and written by both macs and windows machines. I did not test this with a hard drive, with a different bus than USB, or under Windows Vista, but I assume these cases follow the same behavior. I tested this with a USB flash drive under Windows 7 Pro and under XP Pro, and both only recognized the FAT32 volume when it was the first one. If you set the HFS+ partition as the first one, Windows won't be able to see the FAT32 partition and will tell you that the disk has to be formatted. ![]() To be able to use it under Windows, you also have to make sure the partitioning scheme is set to Master Boot Record (MBR). If you ever want to divide a drive into two partitions, one formatted as Mac OS Extended (HFS+) and the other as FAT32, and to be able to access the FAT32 partition from Mac OS X and Windows, just make sure you set the FAT32 partition as the first one on the drive when you partition it with Disk Utility. ![]() This may be evident to some people, but I was a little surprised that my first attempt at it failed.
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