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Pro Grape · 02-21-2007, 10:34 AM

Hullo,

My MacBook Pro has three partitions: one for Mac OS X Tiger (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)), one for Windows Vista Business (NTFS), and a FAT32 partition for sharing information between the other two. Problem is, although the shared partition is formatted as FAT32 and Mac OS recognizes it, Windows doesn't see it.

What I have to do is edit the partition table directly, changing the Type field for the shared partition to 0B, which is the identifier for a FAT32 partition. Unfortunately, I can't get PTEDIT32 to work as it always gives "Error #5 when starting PowerQuest Engine" when I try to run it in Windows. Any other way to modify the table? Command line?

If you have suggestions for 3rd-party apps and if you know what they are doing under the hood, please tell me as I'd prefer to learn to do the job the nitty-gritty way.

Thanks!

Grape

02-21-2007, 10:34 AM	#1 (permalink)
Pro Grape ym de shiznat. Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: BC, Canada Posts: 30 OS: Mac OS X.4 & Windows Vista	Edit the partition table; ptedit32 does not run. Hullo, My MacBook Pro has three partitions: one for Mac OS X Tiger (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)), one for Windows Vista Business (NTFS), and a FAT32 partition for sharing information between the other two. Problem is, although the shared partition is formatted as FAT32 and Mac OS recognizes it, Windows doesn't see it. What I have to do is edit the partition table directly, changing the Type field for the shared partition to 0B, which is the identifier for a FAT32 partition. Unfortunately, I can't get PTEDIT32 to work as it always gives "Error #5 when starting PowerQuest Engine" when I try to run it in Windows. Any other way to modify the table? Command line? If you have suggestions for 3rd-party apps and if you know what they are doing under the hood, please tell me as I'd prefer to learn to do the job the nitty-gritty way. Thanks! Grape