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irishgrizzly

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If got a 80gig HD for gaming on my Mac Pro. I've installed Age of Conan and it's a huge install. Now I can't defragment this disk in XP. I think this is because there is only 11% of disk space left and when defragmenting XP doesn't have room to move around large files. So my question is; If I re partitioned another large drive to have say, 100mb FAT – could XP use this space to write files to during the defragmenting?

Is it possile to partition one drive journaled (OS) and FAT 32 for Windows?
 
If got a 80gig HD for gaming on my Mac Pro. I've installed Age of Conan and it's a huge install. Now I can't defragment this disk in XP. I think this is because there is only 11% of disk space left and when defragmenting XP doesn't have room to move around large files. So my question is; If I re partitioned another large drive to have say, 100mb FAT – could XP use this space to write files to during the defragmenting?

No. Defrag will only move data around a single volume.

Is it possile to partition one drive journaled (OS) and FAT 32 for Windows?

Yes - you can do that through disk utility.
 
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