You would have to partition the drive and format the partitions first. I have one drive which functions as 3 drives: one is a time machine backup for my Mac, one is my Windows backup, and the other one contains file data.
Kristyn Sent from my iPhone On Mar 14, 2012, at 5:39 PM, "Marcia Yale" <dragonca...@gmail.com> wrote: > The subject says it all--I'm still both a Windows and a Mac user, with one > laptop on each operating system, and I also have an external drive with > about 200 gigs of files which I can connect to either machine and which, > along with the two laptops, I would like to back up. I am trying to decide > whether to purchase one or more than one new external drives to use for > backing up the whole lot, and would like to know whether there is a way to > use one external drive to back up files from all three devices--the two > laptops and the other external drive. Is this even a good idea? All thoughts > and information welcome! > > Marcia Yale > "Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can > hear her breathing."--Arundhati Roy > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
