- #SPLIT HARD DRIVE MAC AND PC MAC OS#
- #SPLIT HARD DRIVE MAC AND PC INSTALL#
- #SPLIT HARD DRIVE MAC AND PC PRO#
- #SPLIT HARD DRIVE MAC AND PC SOFTWARE#
Let’s get down to make the external hard drive compatible with Mac and Windows. This does not require any third-party application or assistance of any additional software.
#SPLIT HARD DRIVE MAC AND PC MAC OS#
Fortunately, you could create an external hard disk which is compatible with both Windows and Mac OS with the help of this article. However, Windows was mainly optimized for NTFS (New Technology file system) format, on the other hand, APFS was created for the Mac OS.Īs we all know NTFS is not compatible with Mac and similarly APFS does not get along with Windows. Bob's your uncle and you're back in business.An external hard drive that supports both Windows and Mac operating systems can be extremely helpful to users who work on both the operating systems. Make a couple of donations to the good people at Carboncopy and Winclone for making their available. Restoring the win image is time consuming so plan your day arouns it.ġ2.
Using Winclone, restore the windows image, which is now residing on the old HD, to the new bootcamp partition. Using Bootcamp patition the new HD for windows.ġ1. Erased the Windows partition on the old HD and then move the winclone image from the new HD to the old one.ġ0. From that perspective is has been a great success, on the downside using Mac, from being brought up on PC, turned out to be a real pain because it made me realise how much of a slug windows is so that now I'm continually frustrated with it-windows that is.ĩ. As an aside getting a mac was an experiment for me that I started two years ago. I live in hope that one day there will be a magic mac that means I can choose never to use windows again).
#SPLIT HARD DRIVE MAC AND PC SOFTWARE#
The following steps can be optimised if you are not being a miser with your new HD partition like I am by having a minimum amount of space assigned to Mac (it's just a regrettable fact that I can't run the software I use for most of the working day in mac, and emulators are rubbish for these apps-and I have tried Parallels and Fusion. From within Mac winclone windows partition and save the image onto new HD (my old one was full).įrom here I fumbled around a bit and I'm sure there is a better way but the issue I had was that I mostly use windows because the software I spend most of the day using is specialist PC stuff so my partition is stronlgy biased to widows.
#SPLIT HARD DRIVE MAC AND PC INSTALL#
Install old HD into external enclosure and attach to laptop.Ĩ. Intall new HD into laptop following ifixit guide.ħ. Test boot from external HD (hold down option buttin at start etc.).ĥ. Carbonccopy mac partition to external HD from within Mac of course.Ĥ. Install new HD into a SATA external enclosure.ģ. Basically what Matthewfrey suggests works a treat but here is the step by step proceedure I went through to get into 500GB 7200 rpm bootcamp bliss:Ģ. Because this thread was so useful I thought I'd share a list of steps I (complete novice at this stuff) went through.
#SPLIT HARD DRIVE MAC AND PC PRO#
I have just upgraded my HD on my MacBook Pro A1226, on which I run bootcamp with win XP. I don't know much about Bootcamp, so any input will be appreciated! But the new drive still has the FAT partition, ready for a transfer. Is there a way to transfer either both partitions together, or at least the just the NTFS partition? I was able to transfer the OS X partition successfully and install the new drive into the computer. However, the "Restore" was instantaneous, indicating that Disk Utility in fact did nothing. Disk Utility, on the other hand, let me partition the new drive into two partitions (one GUID_PARTITION_SCHEME and one FAT), and even "Restore" the XP NTFS partition from the old drive to the new drive's FAT partition. SuperDuper did not allow me to choose the XP partition at all from the "Source" menu.
I tried to use both SuperDuper and Disk Utility to transfer over the XP partition neither of them worked correctly. He runs Bootcamp on his computer, and has both an OS X Leopard and Windows XP partition on his old drive. I helped out my friend last week with installing a new 500GB drive on his MBP 15".
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