dkking

Hey I just bought a macbook pro for the first time, and i have been using it for so far..1 day. Heh, its a great OS no doubt.

Anyways i have a 250gb HDD in it and i wanted to divide it like the title says.

Basically my intention is to use 120gb for Media that can be viewed by both OSs. The rest divided by both OS. How can i do this?

can i partition with boot camp like 50 60 120 gb partition?
Please teach me how as i dont' know how to do this properly.

dkking

Bump anyone? I learned that boot camp you cant' make 3 diff partitions so.. i made just one Vista Partition.

Anyway i can get vista to see the mac folders and just use its music folders and download folders?

sinclair_tm

The truth is, the best thing you could do is format the whole disk in FAT32, or make 3 partitions all in FAT32, as that is the only large disk format that both OSes can read and write too. There is no Mac format that Windows can read, Microsoft hasn't added it's support, and most likely never will. Apple has added support for every Microsoft format but NTFS, which is the one Vista uses, because Microsoft hasn't released the details on the format yet. Macs can read NTFS, but can not write to it. The best thing to do is to open Disk Utility and then click on the disk's icon in the left pane, and then in the right side make changes to the partition map. You'd tell it to make 3 partitions, then you can drag the dividers to get the partitions in the sizes you want, and then tell it to format the partitions in MS-DOS. This is do it in FAT32.