PCs won't recognise my HDD after formatting partition for TIME MACHINE

Hi,
I divided my WD Passport HDD in 2 250GB partitions, to work both with TIME MACHINE and also as an archive to share files and folders with other computers. Time machine has now backed up my system, but as I plugged the HDD in my PC it won't recognise it... I mean, it recognises that a USB storage device has been connected, but then it won't show in My Computer.
What can I do? does anyone know if there is any ways that I can keep my archive partition compatible with Windows?
thanks,
Fra

Hi Fra and welcome to Discussions,
I assume that your archive partition is using 'Mac OS Extended (journaled)' as file system, correct ?
If so, only MacDrive http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/ can help Windows to see and use this partition.
If you use FAT32 (a.k.a. MS-Dos in Disk Utility) or NTFS as file system on your archive partition, there are reports of Windows PCs not being able to see/use harddisks that uses GPT (GUID Partition Table - standard on Intel Macs).
You could solve this by reformating/repartitioning your external harddisk using MBR (Master Boot Record) as partition scheme, but not only will this erase all informations that are on your external harddisk right now, it will also prevent Time Machine from using this harddisk.
So, this is not a viable option for you.
Regards
Stefan

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