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sir pball

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8. It's apparently formatted to boot Windows

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Reply #7)

Thu Mar 7, 2013, 02:21 PM

Mar 2013

MBR is the boot-sector format that Microsoft uses. If you have any use for a Windows install you can leave it, but if not why keep the FAT32 partition at all?

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Of Portable Drives and Partitions [View all] Stinky The Clown Mar 2013 OP

Since you have it, back up the most important 500GB in you life, then bury it. NYC_SKP Mar 2013 #1

I have a portable lacie. The partitioning instructions came in the manual. I would robinlynne Mar 2013 #2

I'm taking a wild guess here, based on long past experience NV Whino Mar 2013 #3

Repartition options fpublic Mar 2013 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author guyton Mar 2013 #5

I'm thinking of zapping my Bootcamp partition. I have Vista on it, but it looks like the new OS X davidwparker Mar 2013 #13

^ Like he says, you can do it on-the-fly, but I never do sir pball Mar 2013 #6

Actually, Disk Utility will not allow a dynamic change to this drive. Stinky The Clown Mar 2013 #7

It's apparently formatted to boot Windows sir pball Mar 2013 #8

Thanks! That clarifies it. Stinky The Clown Mar 2013 #9

Then trash it ASAP...FAT32 is outdated anyway. sir pball Mar 2013 #10

Can a Mac read NTFS? Stinky The Clown Mar 2013 #11

Read natively, write with utilities sir pball Mar 2013 #12