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Create a shared FAT32 partition on Boot Camp MacBook

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Mar 15, 20265494 views
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I have a MacBook set up with Boot Camp, and the XP partition is NTFS. The split is 50-50 and there is no unallocated space on the hard drive. I want to create a shared 50GB FAT32 partition for my DropBox files, so regardless of which OS I boot into, I only have to keep one copy of my DropBox on the…

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Fix for: Create a shared FAT32 partition on Boot Camp MacBook

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Mac OS X can both read and write to NTFS partitions. Reading is native; writing can be enabled by installing MacFuse and ntfs3g, both free, open-source, stable projects. This should save you the need to repartition. It's easier, safer and faster.

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