Partition the sparsebundle in Time Machine

Hello:
I recently bought a Seagate GoFlex 2 TB network hard drive. I assume I would be able to partition the drive and use one partition for Time Machine backups and the other partition to be used by data on other Windows computers. Apparently you cannot partition this drive.
So I found this article by which you can partition the sparsebundle after mounting it:
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/A8.html
Sounds like it would work but not sure. Apparently the Seagate drive comes pre formatted with NTFS but installs drivers that allow the Mac to work with it. Also, I'm wondering whether partitioning the sparsebundle would leave the rest of the space available for Windows to use.
I'm on Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
What do you think? Thanks!

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