Windows access to APM / FAT32 partition

If I partition my ext HDD (My Book Home 1TB) using Apple Partition Map (APM) and format one (of several) partitions as FAT32, will a Windows XP PC be able to find that partition?
I want most of the drive for Mac backup and storage, but may want to use it to move files larger than my 1GB flash drive (but smaller than the 4GB FAT32 limit) or collections of many files from my Mac environment to somebody else's PC without any special software on the PC side.
Thanks!

Yes, the XP machine should be able to see the FAT32 partition.

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Just an idea for you. There is an entire Apple Discussion forum dedicated to Boot Camp and Windows XP.
Whereas, not everyone here with an Intel iMac has installed, tried to install or has experience with BC & XP, everyone there has or at least has an interest. You may attract help more quickly there.
The Forum is at the bottom of the main Apple Discussions page under Windows Compatible Technology.
Here is a link;
Forum: Boot Camp Public Beta

Partition Map Schemes: HFS+ and FAT32 partitions with OSX and Windows

OK so I know this question has been practically beaten to death, but I keep finding conflicting information. I am using a 2011 MacBook Pro, on which I will set up Windows through Boot Camp. I recently purchased a 750 GB WD external hard drive to use with time machine for a backup on my Mac. However, I also need to be able to use part of this for Windows files. SO.. I intend to use the HFS+ partition for the the Mac (500GB) and create a FAT 32 partition (250GB) to use for backing up windows files (using it for solely computer modeling and need to be able to transfer/share files with Mac users who use Parallels as well as copying to PC desktops). My question is what to use as the partition map scheme. I have heard that when using these two partition types, a Master Boot Record is needed (so Windows can recognize the FAT32 partition) and also that a GUID partition map is required for use with time machine, meaning windows would no longer be able to read the FAT32 partition. Is there a way to reconcile this? Either using Time Machine with HFS+ partition that is set to MBR or uisng FAT32 on Windows with a GUID partition map? Also if I were to use Parallels (with a GUID setup) instead of Boot Camp, could that be the way to save the windows files to the FAT32 Partition and avoid problems with Time Machine not working with MBR? Thanks for any expertise, as I have heard that both setups that I have mentioned both will work and both will not work. Any experience with a similar situation?

Wow. Thanks for the extremely quick responses. Just for a few points of clarification.. I'm a complete newb at backing up strategies.
Steve, you would recommend to not backup files from my Mac OSX and files from Windows (also on my Mac) on the same drive, correct?
I appreciate the strategy of using it only as a backup, that makes quite a bit of sense. However, if I want to only backup my OSX files, and also store (solely as backup copies) say, a number of computer models (Rhino, Revit, etc.) that were created in Windows programs (not needing to store the entire Windows disk), would it not make sense to store these on the same drive in a different partition, creating the need for two different partition formats? And if I were to do this, maybe I should use NTFS instead of FAT32 (and reformat to GUID since that seems to be a standard for Apple and Windows 7 recognizes it..?) to keep them completely separate since the computer model files cannot be opened unless running the Windows programs.
How do you use your drive with HFS+ and NTFS if not for backups? I will not need to access the HFS+ backup files in Windows, nor need to access files from an NTFS partition in OSX, so that seems to simplify things in that, at least at the moment, I will not need any Paragon software.
Currently my drive is partitioned as HFS+ and FAT32 as MBR, with the HFS+ partition set up with Time Machine. It appears to be successful, I see my files in Mac HD -> "users" and all my docs, desktop items, etc. are listed. Seems that there is in fact no limit on TM's use of MBR maps, or else it is way above 160GB.
Third, are you using CarbonCopyClone in place of Time Machine or in addition to it? If in addition would it create the bit-wise clone on the same HFS+ partition as TM is backing up to? Or a separate drive? I'd like to only have one external that I am backing up to for simplicity's sake. I've never used TM before, so this is all new to me. Also, I suppose I have been missing the distinction between storing copies of files, and making a complete backup of a disk image... just now realizing the difference. Thanks so much.

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diskutil erasedisk
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destroyed. Ownership of the affected disk is required.
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Name is the (new) volume name (subject to file system naming restrictions),
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Can Windows access the files in the Mac Partition?

HI,
I am gonna buy a Macbook pro and I would like to install Windows 7 also.
In boot camp, partitioning the hard drive for windows is just for Windows and its software installation or that restricts the hard disk size windows OS can access?
Basically, I am wondering whether user can access a file in mac partition from Windows seamlessly and vice versa. I am afraid if boot camp partition restricts the hard drive scope for each OS.
How VMware handles the hard drive partitioning?
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The Boot Camp drivers will give your Windows OS read-only access to the MacOS disc, but you can buy a third party software for getting full read/write access from Windows.
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Virtual machines get around the issue by providing the "guest" (virtual) OS access to the "host" system drives through emulated network shares. The shared areas just show up as mapped network drives on the Windows system when it is running virtualized.
I have a 3 year old MBP and I am running Snow Leopard on a 300GB partition and Windows 7 on a 200MB partition of the 500GB drive. I have the third party drivers mentioned above for both OSes so no matter what OS I am running, I have read/write access to both partitions on the drive.
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Before I start, I'd just like to say how impressed I am with Arch! I've only been using it for a week now, a bit less in fact, but it's already wowing me enough to make me think about changing my loyalties from Debian to Arch - something I thought would be impossible even a few weeks back!
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Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
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/dev/hda1 * 1 7047 56604996 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 9447 9729 2273197+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 7048 9446 19269967+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 9447 9729 2273166 82 Linux swap / Solaris
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debian:/home/james# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults, errors=remount-ro 0 0 2
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/usb0 vfat rw,user,users,noauto,noatime,noauto 1 2
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Thanks for your reply toliman. I've tried doing what you suggested but it still doesn't work. Here is my new fstab file:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda3 /media/arch ext3 defaults, errors=remount-ro 0 0 2
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/usb0 vfat rw,user,users,noauto,noatime,noauto 1 2
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-05-14 16:43 arch
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2007-06-07 17:13 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-06-07 17:13 cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-06-07 17:13 cdrom1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2007-06-07 17:13 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-06-07 17:13 floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-04-03 14:17 IOMEGA_HDD
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-01-10 14:56 sda1
drwxrwxrwx 2 root cdrom 4096 2007-12-15 20:44 usb0
Still the same issues: pemissions denied when I try to open or mount hda/3 with dolphin. When I try to mount as root using the command line I get:
debian:/home/james# mount /dev/hda3
[mntent]: line 6 in /etc/fstab is bad
mount: can't find /dev/hda3 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
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Using TM to reformat one (FAT32) partition on external HD

Hi all,
I'm wondering what others' experiences have been using TM's reformat feature on only one partition in a drive. In my case, I have a 400GB Seagate external HD that has been partitioned to one half HFS+ and one half FAT32. Now that my data analysis programs have all come out with mac support, I have finally said goodbye to the ole Windoze machine (yey!!). However I am still left with a hard drive that has been partially made compatible for my old PC.
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Any advice on better sites than A-drive (www.adrive.com) for permanent, relatively inexpensive cloud storage would be much appreciated as well.
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Ok, I finally understand.
redhedhs wrote:
I have a separate TM drive for the Intel Mac, so I'm focusing on having an Apple partition map for my iBook backups. Right now I have a successful partition to use for TM (let's call it TM DRIVE). And another for music, docs, etc (FILES DRIVE). FILES DRIVE is currently FAT32 formatted. I haven't had any problems with it, but I'm trying to figure out:
a. If it's even necessary to reformat this to Apple partition if I'm not using it for TM (ie: what are the possible scenarios that would necessitate avoiding FAT32 for this?).
Not necessary but I would recommend it. FAT32 has several limitations. For example, TM can not back it, up. the file size is limited. unix permissions don't work on it. if a file is locked you can't delete it from OS X and have to boot from windows to do it. Much better to use HFS+ if you are not going to use the drive with windows.
b. If I do want to reformat just the FAT32 partition, is it likely/probable that I would erase the info on the other partition if I did so?
No. It's quite safe to do so using disk utility. this has nothing to do with TM which threw me off.
just select the FAT partition in disk utility and reformat it to HFS+ using the "erase" tab. this will of course erase everything currently on the FAT partition but will not affect the TM partition in any way. as i said, the operation is quite safe.
Sounds like you're saying Disk Utility would be better suited for it, wondering if I should crosspost there? Either way, I wonder if I can just reformat one partition safely?
Thanks!

Trying to clone bootcamp side of Mac in FAT32 partition.

Hello,
I am trying to clone the bootcamp side of my Mac. I have a FAT32 partition. Though I've seen answers in other posts, only a link is given which I apparently don't have access to, so if you could please fully describe the process, I'd be very appreciative.
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I looked up some Info regarding Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite 2011. It looks like the answer to your problem.
Hard Disk Manager 2011 Suite
Supported Operating Systems
Windows 7(32/64 Bit)
Windows Vista (32/64 Bit)
Windows XP Home Edition SP2
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Windows 2000 Professional SP4
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The first is the OSX partition. The second is the Windows Vista Home Premium partition, which disk utility describes as a Microsoft Basic Data partition. The third is a FAT32 partition labeled "MUSIC". They are listed in that order in OSX's disc utility from top to bottom.
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Hi there EmilyK0316,
You may find the troubleshooting steps in the article below helpful.
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Mac OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1591
-Griff W.

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AMD Athlon XP 1700+ Thoroughbred
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TEAC 40x
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At some time I was having both partitions on FAT32 and I was having the same problem. Now I see that I have both partitions NTFS and I still got the problem. If I upgrade to BIOS version 1.8 the performance degrades by 90% at least!!!! (e.g to copy a 700 Mb file from other drive I need 5 minutes!!!!). I don't know what to say, it seems thata KT4V is the worst MSI Mobo ever.

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also do not want to reinstall a new XP Sp3 virtual machine from scratch for same reason - will take too long to resetup -just use existing as is.
I have used VMWare player and Virtual Box in past with an old 98SE system as a virtual VHD/VPC file but VMWare workstation is paid which may be the one I need to use a physical partition but I prefer to try freeware options first.
Will Hyper-V in Windows 8.1 (I have retail PRO version of both my XP and Windows 8.1) be able to do the same as VMWare workstation? OR is there another option to run the physical XP?
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on a partition C (2GB) (which is not the Windows8.1 partition which becomes C only when it boots, but this C drive for XP may also be having the Windows 8 boot loader and files for that -using EasyBCD to handle boot menu of W7 type boot loader).
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So what are my options for running this XP SP3 setup via Windows 8 as a guest operating system?
Also will doing this be likely to require reactivation of my existing windows XP (retail) which means I cannot then use it again if I go back to the XP dual boot at times or in case the VM setup does not work?
Also do I need to change my XP first so that it boots off its own drive rather than the C partition - and how do I set this up then using EasyBCD or windows boot repair?

HI I found I had to make physical disk offline to use in Hyper-V which I cannot do and do not want to do with all partitions - cannot choose just ones want.
So now am trying to make VM of my physical XP -and other partitions neeeded but D partition is over 127Gb so cannot use Disk2VHD.
Here is what am trying now - any other suggestions for alternate software to vmware convertor/disk2VHD maybe to do partitions over 127GB? I have posted also at VMware forums but no answer as yet.
Advice on doing a physical XPSP3 conversion to a VM for Virtual box and hyper-v ultimately
Hi I need advice as to best way to convert an existing XP Sp3 install on a physical hard drive along with other related partitions to a Virtual box VM image with aim to convert that VM image to a Hyper-V VM for use with Windows 8.1 host.
I have several C (boot ini partition), D programs, E Data, etc partitions and a current dual boot with an extra XP install I use as a backup system.
My main XP is on J drive and other XP on I drive with C drive boot ini that switches btw 2 with J set as default.
I have a D partition that is over 127 Gb so cannot use Disk2VHD which would have been easier, and it seems there is not a way to make a direct Hyper-V VM from converter but only Vmware VM?
I do not have or want to purchase as yet VMware Workstation as have W8.1 Pro that can use Hyper-V to run my XP SP3.
I seem to also have an issue with COM+ corrupted on my machine XP J drive ( It tried to reinstall the COM+ but my es.dll file won't register and I did get a failed conversion with converter when tried earlier at 94% saying VSS snapshots have
reached their limit). I think this is related to my COM+ issue which I am not sure now how to fix apart from repair install of my Xp (as I have tried repairing COM with various articles searched on google to no avail) which I may do first before
retry conversion. However my ALT XP on I drive seems to be fine with being able to browse the COM+ applications ok. SO maybe I can use that instead but it is the J drive XP I want the most (not sure if will work at reboot if I do not
hot clone it?)
I have read also the manual for converter 5.5.1 ver standalone and am not sure of a few things so if someone can guide me it would be very much appreciated.
First of all which version VM should I make image of if I later want to convert it to a Hyper-V VM image (I only have free Virtual Box latest ver, VMware Player and Hyper-V on Windows 8.1 PRo) ie: VMware workstation 10 or Vmware Player 6 or lower
ver or other? OR is there another software I should install for the conversion or later conversion to Hyper-V? I prefer to use Hyper-V over Virtual Box and Vmware Player if possible, but should these others work just as well for my Xp Sp3 existing
system as a VM in Windows 8.1? Please advise which you think is best of these?
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SYSPprep should I do anyway regardless of what target VM will be when configuring later, even if on same hardware machine? OR can I just boot Vm and see if boots ok first?
Anything else I should set specifically for this future use of the VM image in hyper-v?
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More then 2 partitions on an external drive with a Fat32 partition...

Hey guys. I'm having some troubles with partitioning an external USB drive in disk utility.
I want to have 4 partitions total, 3x MAC OS Extended (journaled) and 1x FAT 32.
I am able to create the partitions (using GPT) fine in disk utility and as far as the OSX is concerned, all the partitions are viewable and work fine however windows machines do not see the fat32 partition. Windows only sees one large GUID partition that it cannot read.
If I reformat the drive (using GPT) with 1 MAC OS Ext (journaled) partition and 1 FAT32 partition, both windows and the Mac find all the partitions and things work as they should.
I want 4 partitions so I can have a data drive for OSX, a bootable copy of the snow leopard install disc, a bootable copy of a fresh snow leopard installation and a windows data drive for exchanging files.
Is there anyway I can do this or do I need to stick to 2 partitions if I want the fat32 partition to be readable by windows?

savante wrote:
Hey guys. I'm having some troubles with partitioning an external USB drive in disk utility.
I want to have 4 partitions total, 3x MAC OS Extended (journaled) and 1x FAT 32 .... Windows only sees one large GUID partition that it cannot read. If I reformat the drive (using GPT) with 1 MAC OS Ext (journaled) partition and 1 FAT32 partition, both windows and the Mac find all the partitions and things >work as they should.
I would try NTFS. I know that that would prevent you from doing anything with the partition from your Mac, but that's sort of a small price to pay. To compensate partially, you could run MacDrive (mediafour.com) on the Windows machine(s). MacDrive allows Windows machines to read and write Mac formatted drives.
Is there anyway I can do this or do I need to stick to 2 partitions if I want the fat32 partition to be readable by windows?
Could there be a problem with the way Sno is formatting FAT. I never use FAT so I am not quite sure what is going on here. But, many have reported that the Sno Disk Utility no long refers to FAT32, just to FAT, and having FAT formatted, they have FAT problems--i.e., things don't work like they should under FAT32. Maybe you should try formatting with an Install DVD that clears specifies FAT32.

Unable to share a fat32 partition with macs (snow leopard)

i have a hard drive with two partitions in it, im able to share one of them formated for mac, but im not able to share the fat32 partition? what is going on?
it is connected to an imac (snow leopard)
trying to share it with macbook pro and windows pc
please help?
pd: when i use to have mac 10.5 leopard it works without problem, what is different

Try deleting the addressBook database, /Users/username/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb.
Address Book automatically creates that file from the metadata.

[SOLVED]How do I get rw access to a vfat partition?

I need user rw access to my vfat partition how would I go about setting it up.
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x19b819b8
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 11601 93185001 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 11602 11732 1052257+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 11733 38913 218331382+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 11733 13022 10361893+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 13023 13153 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 13154 28609 124150288+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 28610 38913 82766848+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000b0d11
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 20525 164867031 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 20526 24351 30732345 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb3 24352 30401 48596625 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 24352 25404 8458191 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 25405 30401 40138371 83 Linux
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 rw,user,noauto 0 0
#/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/sda2 /boot ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb5 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb6 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb1 /backup ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 1
/dev/sdb2 /vfat vfat iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 1
/dev/sda8 /vmiso ext3 defaults 0 0
disk wheel video audio optical storage power users username
Last edited by cell (2007-10-23 22:42:01)

The following works.
/dev/sdb2 /vfat vfat auto,iocharset=utf8,rw,noexec,umask=000 0 1
I had just tried all kind of things maybe a reboot is sometimes needed or maybe I just hit the right combo.

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