Can a portable USB 3.0 HDD be partitioned and formatted FAT32 and Mac OS Extended?

I wish to use a portable HDD on a Windows laptop and also my iMac.
I realise that if I format it as FAT32 it will work on both.
Unfortunately I also need it to work with Final Cut Pro X  .  .  .  but FCP X can only recognise Mac OS Extended drives.
So will I be aple to split it into 2 partitions with one formatted as FAT32 and the other Mac OS Extended?

For what it is worth, I have an internal drive that is formatted thusly:
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Lion                    531.2 GB   disk2s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS TimeS                   369.0 GB   disk2s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data FILES                   99.4 GB    disk2s4
When I boot into Windows 7, which is on still another drive, it recognizes the FAT 32 partition fine, as does Mac OS, and both can read and write to the partition. It has been awhile since I set this up, as I recall I may have had to reformat the FAT 32 partition from Windows (originally formatted it in Disk Utility). Sometimes Windows just doesn't like the format as done by the Mac. Anyway, the point is that it is not the first partition. You might try fiddling around with the new drive and see if it really makes any difference. Also I can boot Lion from that drive if I want, because it is GUID Partition Table.

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