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Originally Posted by Burning Down

Can an external hard drive be partitioned? And how would I go about doing that? If so, could it be used on more than one computer, where one is Windows 7 and the others are XP?

Yes.
Start > Right click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management > Select external drive > Right click > Shrink volume > Enter, in MegaBytes, the amount of space you want to shrink the existing volume by (say if you want to split the drive equally, just enter half the total volume) then Shrink.

Now you'll have another partition, or unallocated space. If it's unallocated, you just need to format it with NTFS. (Right click the new partition and choose Format)

And yes, you can use it on both XP and 7



(I'm going off of memory here, but that should be about right. If you have any issues, let me know)