I already asked this question on Apple's community forum, right here, so I'll post the answer here if something comes up there first.
This is my problem :
I recently bought an external drive of 500Gb with the intent to use it to store large files that I use on my Mac and to use it as a bootable drive for Windows.
I followed this tutorial to make the drive bootable on Windows 10, everything works well for that part.
Now I want to be able to partition the drive so that I can have 2 parts for Windows (1 part that contains the infos for the boot, 1 that contains Windows) and 1 part that I can use on the Mac side to store files. I thought that I could simple use the partition operation on the Disk Utility app, but the operation is greyed out. I found many answers on forums, but none of them is exactly what I'm looking for. Any idea how I can can achieve it ?
The actual state of the drive :
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk2
1: DOS_FAT_32 WINBOOT 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Windows_NTFS BOOTCAMP 499.9 GB disk2s2
Thanks in advance and have a good day !
Best Answer
Ok, after spending the afternoon looking how to solve this, I found that the easy way was to create a new partition from Windows' side in exFat format. And since the format exFat is modifiable on Mac, unlike NTFS, I can then erase it and then change the format to whichever I want.