I have this 512GB external usb drive and I want to partition it so that the 448GB part is NTFS that will be for windows (because of better transfer speeds) and the 64GB part is Fat32 that will be for mac (because macs cant write onto NTFS partitions, and I will be plugging the usb drive onto mac laptops because of school) so. Is there any possible way to do this? The Lexar BootIt utility does not work. Once I flip the removable bit, it wrecks the usb's file system and I have to clean and format it all over again using diskpart.
Just use default windows formatting thing (in disk management). Yes, I have tried. But then, Windows can't recognize the second (Fat32) partition because apparently, Windows will only recognize the first partition of a removable drive, not any other partitions, but I really need to access that second partition on Windows also because that's the partition where all the files from the Mac Laptops will be placed and I need to access it on Windows because of school. (I use a Windows laptop and almost everybody else uses Mac laptops).
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