How To Partition An External Hard Drive For Mac And Windows]

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I have this 512GB external usb drive and I want to partition it so that the 448GB part is NTFS that will be for windows (because of better transfer speeds) and the 64GB part is Fat32 that will be for mac (because macs cant write onto NTFS partitions, and I will be plugging the usb drive onto mac laptops because of school) so. Is there any possible way to do this? The Lexar BootIt utility does not work. Once I flip the removable bit, it wrecks the usb's file system and I have to clean and format it all over again using diskpart. Just use default windows formatting thing (in disk management). Yes, I have tried. But then, Windows can't recognize the second (Fat32) partition because apparently, Windows will only recognize the first partition of a removable drive, not any other partitions, but I really need to access that second partition on Windows also because that's the partition where all the files from the Mac Laptops will be placed and I need to access it on Windows because of school.

(I use a Windows laptop and almost everybody else uses Mac laptops).

A mac is great no viruses great OS, great programs. You can use a program called parallels and you can duel boot windows and run games. The baseline Macbook for 999.99 can run most games good Half. If there’s one good thing about the relative scarcity of games on the Mac, it’s that we often get the best games when we do get them. Sure, you’ll find a few stinkers, but the fact remains. That, more than anything else, is the reason why Macs have a reputation for not being good at games, and it's going to take a real change in attitude to get Apple to take gaming more seriously on. Most typical games will play fine but more the more graphic intensive games like Crysis or a good flight sim will make an iMac work really hard. You can still play the intensive games but you'll have to play with a bit lower settings than a full blown gaming computer.

Steps to partition external hard drive on Mac: To setup the external hard drive for the first time, Connect the External hard drive to your Mac computer, open the Disk Utility and perform the following steps. How to Partition a New Hard Drive in Windows 8.