Extra Hard Drive

I am running a Mac Mini and have used Boot Camp to load both Mac OSX and Windowa XP. They work fine , each with about 30 GB of Hard Drive.
I now want to expand the Hard Drive capacity , equally for both Operating Systems. I have a free-standing 120 GB hard drive with USB. May I use that or must I get a "Mac-approved" one to avoid any mismatching. If so, what is the aproved model of a Hard Drive (about 100 GB)for use with the Mac Mini?
Please refer me to detailed instructions how to install the extra USB hard drive and how to partition it so that its two halves work, one with Mac OSX and the other with Windows XP.
Thank you for your help, Michael ([email protected])

How do I now get it to show also in "My Computer" as
"Drive E:", so that I can save and retrieve data to and from that drive, using the customary notation.
That's really a bootcamp question and you will get a better selection of forum users trying to answer it if you post it in the bootcamp forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1165

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No it only takes one hard drive:
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http://www.extremetech.com/computing/143380-how-to-dual-boot-windows-8-and-windows-7
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Well first you have to figure out what is wrong with the machine and solve that problem first.
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I would very much like to fit an extra hard drive to this machine (SSD). Can you tell me what I need to do ? There does not appear to be an extra bay for another hard drive although there is certainly a spare SATA connector on the motherboard and a spare power connector. Any help would be much appreciated thank you.
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Your PC is not provisioned for multiple hard drives.
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I have a 3TB SATA hard drive that I just created a partion upon in order to install windows (with bootcamp).
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There are two issues, lack of support by Disk Utility in 10.8.4 for 2.2TB and larger, but new support in Boot Camp Assistant for 3TB drives.
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I am seriously looking at purchasing a 15" Mac Pro this year - I know what specs I want, but I am curious as to what Mac users do re the extra hard drives? I am used to having a second hard drive on my PC for scratch discs for the Creative Suites including CS4. What do Mac users use for extra scratch discs? Do you use a removable drive? Apple tells me that I can't have any second hard drive in the Mac Pro or iMac, hence my query. (I will also be attaching my Wacom Cintiq 21UX to it as well.) Thank you.

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Thank you very much for your response darkhawk.
So either way I will always be able to fit a 2nd hard drive in there?
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Are there GT70 models that don't have 2 bays? (This was my initial question, I now notice it was confusing.)
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