Hardware 2 partitions on one HDD, WBFS, and NTFS

[MrPJW]

Is it possible for the Wii to access games on a hard disk drive if it has multiple partitions? I'm thinking about using my sole USB HDD (with lots of data already on it), for use on the Wii. But I have it in NTFS, and the Wii requires WBFS. Could I reserve a separate partition on the drive for the Wii exclusively? Or would I risk losing data on the NTFS partition? Can the USB Loaders handle multiple partitions?

 

[PsyBlade]

Is it possible for the Wii to access games on a hard disk drive if it has multiple partitions?
yes

I'm thinking about using my sole USB HDD (with lots of data already on it), for use on the Wii. But I have it in NTFS, and the Wii requires WBFS. Could I reserve a separate partition on the drive for the Wii exclusively?
in fact its the only way
u need one partition per file system

Or would I risk losing data on the NTFS partition?

only during the creation of the 2. partition
u need some tool to shrink the ntfs
id backup everything important first
QUOTE(MrPJW @ Jul 31 2009, 11:37 PM)

Can the USB Loaders handle multiple partitions?

yes