Can You Partition External Hard Drive

[Tim879]

Hi

Is it possible to partition a USB External HD to have both a FAT32 and
NTFS partition? My TV only recognized FAT32 and I want to play MP3's /
show pics on the TV but use the more stable NTFS file system to store
my other files.

Will Windows XP recognize both drives? If its of any help I use the
USB interface. any tips on how to do this?

Thanks

 

[Rich Barry]

Tim, rt click MyComputer>select Manage>Disk Management. Rt click on
your USB External Drive and choose New Partition.
Follow the instructions and then format. You can choose FAT or NTFS if
I remember correctly.

 

[Bill in Co.]

Answered in the other newsgroup already. To repeat,
I don't see why not. And I don't even think you'll need a third party tool
to do it, unless you want the FAT32 partition larger than 32 GB.