I just recently bought a new WD Elements 2TB. It comes pre-formatted in NTFS for Windows, which is normal and fine. The thing is, I also have a Macbook and would love to partition the HDD so it could have two separate ones: one in NTFS for my PC, and one in HFS+ for my MAC!
You don’t need third party apps for this. Use Windows Disk Manager (type diskmgmt.msc on RUN dialogue box) to delete existing partition and create a NTFS partition with the size in your mind. Then connect to Mac and launch Disk Utilities and create a Mac compatible partition with remaining free space.
Sure but since it’s new, isn’t that just the same as just connecting it to the MAC and doing the HFS+ partition?
That is, the HDD has 2TB, can I just plug it to the MAC and make a partition of 1TB? Or do I have to firstly make a partition of 1TB of NTFS in Windows?
I know this seems like what you’ve said but what I’m trying to ask is if I can skip your first step. I hope I’m explaining it correctly, haha.
You can use Mac to do both partitions, but I believe Mac only make MBR FAT32 partitions apart from native GUID. Then you can format FAT32 partition with Windows formatter to make it NTFS.
To be honest, I have not used Mac lately but Mac can see NTFS partitions clearly if NTFS 3G installed on your Mac.