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How to create partitions in Windows and Mac

Well partitioning your drive makes your drive serve multiple purposes like backup , recovery and storage etc. Atleast I don't know how many drives I might have bought if partitioning wasn't available  at all :p . Backup your drive data before proceeding further , Lets get started . I. FOR MAC USERS: 1. open spotlight (CMD+space) , type "Disk Utility" and open it. 2. click on your drive in the left sidebar. 3. if partition button has been greyed out then you will have to erase your drive. Preferably you can format it in exFAT if you wish to use it across Windows and Mac and in HFS+ if you don't like Windows and their users :p , just kidding ! use HFS+ if you need to make time machine backup, and don't use MBR , select GUID. 4. now click on partition, depending on your OS_X version , you might be able to see a different interface but I'll go with the general method. Click on "+" at the bottom. Come on ! find it already , that ain'