Question: My HDD is formatted as the following
[HFS+ OSX SYSTEM PARTITION][HFS+ OSX TIME MACHINE PARTITION (just for convenient history)][NTFS WINDOWS 7 SYSTEM PARTITION][exFAT PARTITION][FREE SPACE]
the purpose of the exFAT partition is to have a partition they can both use natively (and to dump all my files that are not program/system related).
exFAT (Fat64) was chosen over Fat32 because I frequently use files that are larger than 4GB.
The exFat partition was made in OS X’ disk utility.
Windows 7 does not recognize this partition, it sees it as unformatted space within control panel. What is the proper way to do this? Can Windows 7 create the partition instead? Or is there some other limitation to how Windows 7 can access exFat partitions.
Answer: I had a similar problem with a USB key that I formatted in OSX Snow Leopard. ?Turns out I had chosen UUID as partition scheme which Win7 didn’t like. ?Reformatted as MBR in OSX and now Win7 is able to see the exFat partition properly. ?I had to manually assign a drive letter to it, but I was able to read/write to the partition without problems.