1 - can I divide this HD in two, part windows and part Linux? 2 - Can I boot my macbook pro through this hd and access the different partitions?
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Not sure about booting to it but I do actually have mine partitioned 70/30 split with Mac journaled and NTFS as I use encryption on both partitions. I don't know on the bootable front as I use mine as a file mule and time machine. As a side not I will say this drive is far far heavier than it needs to be. Writing and read speeds are blazing fast but I feel like it's lined with lead.
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I believe you can format it for PC even though it was designed for mac. I have 350 of it designated as a mac partition and 50 of it designated as a PC partition, just in case I have to store something from a PC. You can check the LaCie website for more information.
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It's a HD. It will work with whatever OS you format it for. G-Parted is your friend. But Linux can read NTFS and FAT32 partitions fine.
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Easy easy easy yes you can on both. First you need a bootable USB with the operating system on it or a cloning program. Here, check out the clean install video I made. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16m25etC3lo
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Yes - the hard drive includes software that takes you through an automatic set up where you can partition the drive how ever you want. After that piont, on a Mac you can reformat and partition the drive however you like using Disc Doctor or similar - I am unfamiliar with p.c but I know this drive can be formatted to work with them.
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I am an idiot- specifically, how do you format this for a Mac? Also, is it fine to do this, or should I buy a specific hard drive already formated or designed for Macs?
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Yes you can, and you can use them as partitions as well. I am thinking of ordering another set. They are easy to set up too.
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If your MBP has thunderbolt ports, yes. I would run the 2big in its native RAID0 mode to get more speed out of it, and then use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone it out to a RAID1 unit or some other redundant backup plan.
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They are not separate partitions. My best advice is to keep a backup on a separate drive, such as an external hard drive.
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Will you be able to? Yes. Apple provides you with Boot Camp to allow you to install other OS's on the system. However, you might be stuck having a partition of the hard drive (partition meaning taking one harddrive and "sectioning" it into different slices that are viewed as different "virtual" drives) since Apple uses a different way of booting their system than standard PCs use. Also, you might not be able to use the "Arrow Glass" GUI features in Vista because of the embedded Intel graphics. If that's important to you, and you want to go with Apple hardware, you might want to look at the MacBook Pro as they have a dedicated graphics controller. Hope that helps. Will you be able to? Yes. Apple provides you with Boot Camp to allow you to install other OS's on the system. However, you might be stuck having a partition of the hard drive (partition meaning taking one harddrive and "sectioning" it into different slices that are viewed as different "virtual" drives) since Apple uses a different way of booting their system than standard PCs use. Also, you might not be able to use the "Arrow Glass" GUI features in Vista because of the embedded Intel graphics. If that's important to you, and you want to go with Apple hardware,... » Read More Will you be able to? Yes. Apple provides you with Boot Camp to allow you to install other OS's on the system. However, you might be stuck having a partition of the hard drive (partition meaning taking one harddrive and "sectioning" it into different slices that are viewed as different "virtual" drives) since Apple uses a different way of booting their system than standard PCs use. Also, you might not be able to use the "Arrow Glass" GUI features in Vista because of the embedded Intel graphics. If that's important to you, and you want to go with Apple hardware, you might want to look at the MacBook Pro as they have a dedicated graphics controller. Hope that helps. « Show Less
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You can partition it any way you want with Apple's Disk Utility, including NTFS. Partitioning is done commonly and effectively, especially when you want to limit the greatest size of a Time Machine backup for various computers...just create a partition for each one.
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You should be able to use it on both Windows and Mac to read and write. You just have to reformat the drive for FAT32 rather than NTFS. I did this with my WD my passport ultra, works fine unless Toshiba has documentation that states you cannot format FAT32, but I doubt it.
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I think you meant windows and mac. Yes you can and no need to partition anything. different folders for every computer
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It is a hardware clone tool, I can't see any way partition until after the clone is made. Then you can go into disk management and make a new partition with the extra space on the drive. I cloned a 500gb hard drive, and there were two partitions that used 120 gb, the resultant min size of these two partitions was 320gb leaving me the remaining space to make other partitions or do whatever I like.
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Ok thanks for the mesg. I don't think I will change the partition. It seems partitioning the drive leads into some errors, esp after storing some files.
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Are you using it for the primary boot drive, as in installing MAC Leopard to the drive, or just using it as a USB flash drive to store files and stuff to? For the former I have no reason to believe that I would not work however I have only tried it with Linux, not saying much cause Linux can be installed on anything. As for the later case the file system that the drive is formatted to is what makes the difference, unless Apple has some global external memory limit that I don't know about.That's a long answer to say there is not a reasonable reason that it would not work.
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yes- normal drive like any other... you can do whatever you want with it in terms of partitions, boot and just storage.