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    Partitioning an External Hard Drive on my Macbook

    I have a Western Digital 1 TB External Hard Drive. I am using it with my Apple macbook. There is a 4 partition i created of my Western Digital 1 TB External Hard Drive. One of my partition is for Time Machine Backups and i want to use that space for my window operating system. I want to create new partition for my Western Digital 1 TB External Hard Drive on my Apple macbook. How can i do this? please help me as soon as possible.

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    Re: Partitioning an External Hard Drive on my Macbook

    You want to create a new partition in your Western Digital 1 TB External Hard Drive so first you have to delete your old partition and after that you can create a new partition in your Western Digital 1 TB External Hard Drive. So first delete all partition one by one. After deleting all the partition you get single 1 TB partition with your Western Digital 1 TB External Hard Drive. Now you can create a new partition as per your requirement.
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    Re: Partitioning an External Hard Drive on my Macbook

    You want create new partition with your Western Digital 1 TB External Hard Drive and you want to install window operating system in your one of the new partition. If you use FAT32 file system for a partition then you can install Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, and Windows operating system but volume limit for FAT32 file system is not larger than 32 GB. If you need to create a volume larger than 32 GB, use the NTFS file system instead. NTFS file system designed for Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2008, 2003, 2000, NT.
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    Re: Partitioning an External Hard Drive on my Macbook

    You want to install window based operating system in your new partition so file system format of your partition should be either FAT32 or NTFS. But you have a Digital 1 TB External Hard Drive so i think you have to use NTFS file system. Because you have 1 TB External Hard Disk Drive and you go for FAT32 file system then you have to create maximum 32 GB partition and not more then that. So you format your 1 TB External Hard Drive and create a partition in a NTFS file system.

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    Re: Partitioning an External Hard Drive on my Macbook

    If you are not able to create a partition of your Western Digital 1 TB External Hard Drive on my Macbook then you can use the software which are use to create a partition. Partition Magic is a one of the best software to create, delete, Re-size the partition. In this you will get the option for file system. So per your requirement you can set file system for your partition. So i think you have try this software. It will help you to solve your problem.

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