(We have selected two for this tutorial.)ĥ. Now select the number of partitions according to your needs from the “Partition Layout” dropdown menu. Select the partition tab as shown above.Ĥ. Once the Disk Utility window appears, select your external hard drive from the left pane.ģ. How to partition an external drive to use separately with Windows and MacĢ. It’s called ExFAT, but again when it comes to larger data NTFS beats both FAT32 and exFAT. There’s yet another format that is fully supported by both Mac and Windows. If you want maximum performance without size limitations then go for NTFS. However FAT32 has an edge over NTFS as well, which is you can read/write both from Windows and Mac into a partition with this format. Now you might be thinking why not FAT32? Yes, you can format Windows partition in FAT32 too but it has some limitations like file size cannot be larger than 4GB. It will allow you to use your drive with both Windows and Mac with maximum performance. We will guide you through the whole process of partitioning your external drive to HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) and NTFS formats. If that’s the case then you have come to the right place.
So you have got an external drive and want to partition it to keep Mac and Windows data separately.
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