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- Oct 21, 2012
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- Motherboard
- HP Elitebook 8470p
- CPU
- i5 3320M
- Graphics
- HD 4000, 1600x900
- Mobile Phone
Here are my setup: GPT Hybrid MBR
EFI Partition (needed for GPT)
HFS+: Mountain Lion (Chimera + ML)
NTFS: Windows 8
HFS+: Data OSX
NTFS: Data Win
ML can recognize all partitions because it supports GPT. Windows is based on MBR, so it can only recognize up to 4 partitions:
Unrecognized partition (EFI plus HFS+)
NTFS: Windows 8
HFS+: Data OSX
NTFS: Data Win
So far it works fine. I wanted to have a shared data partition but ML sometimes corrupt data on NTFS + exFAT partition, while Windows can corrupt data on HFS+ partition. I set NTFS partition to be read-only on ML, and HFS+ partition to be read-only on Windows. It works fine so far.
EFI Partition (needed for GPT)
HFS+: Mountain Lion (Chimera + ML)
NTFS: Windows 8
HFS+: Data OSX
NTFS: Data Win
ML can recognize all partitions because it supports GPT. Windows is based on MBR, so it can only recognize up to 4 partitions:
Unrecognized partition (EFI plus HFS+)
NTFS: Windows 8
HFS+: Data OSX
NTFS: Data Win
So far it works fine. I wanted to have a shared data partition but ML sometimes corrupt data on NTFS + exFAT partition, while Windows can corrupt data on HFS+ partition. I set NTFS partition to be read-only on ML, and HFS+ partition to be read-only on Windows. It works fine so far.