[X4U] Format Mac an PC [CORRECTION]

Stroller MacMonster at myrealbox.com
Tue May 24 23:47:10 PDT 2005


On May 25, 2005, at 7:35 am, Brett Conlon wrote:
>
> I thought you could choose HFS+ for one partition and MS-DOS for the 
> other
> in Disk Utility and gave that advice to the list... absolutely not so!

It does seem a bit weak on Apple's part that you can't.

>> I've come across a hack that's supposed to allow it
>> <http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030613121738812>
>
> I absolutely fail to see how using the command-line to achieve the
> desired results is a "hack".

I ought to mention that partitioning or formatting your hard-drive from 
the command line is not going to make it unstable, or have your system 
fall apart, or anything. The author of that article partitions under 
Windows, but I don't think you need that.

Stroller.



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