Partition Schemes for Intel Mac

[obeechi]

I just finished a nice post on partitioning an external HD to use with OSX and XP in Bootcamp... and then it didn't post... so instead of rewritting everything... I'm just going to say.. to backup Xp and Intel Mac on the same hard drive... you want to avoid APM, use GUID... partition with Xp [EDIT: I Mean use Mac Disk Utility to create the partition scheme and choose GUID which will be compatible with XP for your backup... I would not use Xp's diskpart]... and create only three partitions.. [a fourth partition will be made which is the GPT aka GUID Partition Table.. but you can't see it using Disk Utility] one for a bootable osx copy [use Extended Journaled], one for an incremental osx backup [use Extended Journaled], and the last one an incremental backup of Xp... formated for MSDOS with Disk Utility.. and then when in Xp... take a peak at the External Harddrive while in DiskManager Snap In... and reformat this MSDOS aka FAT32 partition... into NTFS while in Xp... (with no partitioning... )... Use super easy SuperDuper for the Bootable OSX Copy and use Retro for the two Incremental Backups...[I'm using 2 versions of Retro.. Win.. and Mac... ] SuperDuper and Retro are a good match.. ease of use and clarity of explanation ... with confusing depth... which.. by the time you figure it out.. they'll have a Binary Version out... and the Permissions et issues.. are more critical with Bootable Copies anyway... which isn't an issue with SuperDuper...

Note that you'll want to disable MacDrive7 before using Retro (not sure about with SuperDuper).. I'm currently zeroing out my TB external hard drive after failing to disable MacDrive.. I guess if I had MacFuse up and running then I could have used Disk Utility to zero out a NTFS partition (?)