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Once installed on your PC, You may still need to partition and format the PC/TV link disk so
you can store your digital video files. Although your operating system may support several
different file systems, FAT32 or NTFS partitions are strongly recommended. The HDD/DVD
Media Player can only read NTFS and FAT32 partitions on the PC/TV Link Disk!
This information should help you decide which file system is the best for you.
NTFS File System:
The NTFS file system is recommended for the PC/TV Link Disk, since it can support
very large files and extremely large drives. The NTFS File system is also compatible
with the HDD/DVD Media Player, and most newer versions of the Windows OS. The
PC/TV link disk comes pre-formatted from the factory as a single NTFS partition. If
your PC or laptop computer uses either Windows XP or Windows 2000 Operating
System, no changes are required to use the PC/TV Link Disk.
FAT32 File System
The FAT32 file system is required if your computer uses Windows 98SE, Windows ME
or the Mac OS X operating system. These older operating systems do not support
the NTFS file system (Windows 2000 and Windows XP support both FAT32 and NTFS
drives). The FAT32 file system has some size limitations, but it is also supported by
many different operating systems. Even if your computer does support NTFS
partitions, a FAT32 partition might still be a better choice if you expect to be moving
files between many different computers. The HDD/DVD Media Player can still play
video files from a Link Disk partitioned as a FAT32 drive. Hard drives formatted as
FAT32 volumes have the following limitations:
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Disks formatted with the FAT32 File System cannot store any file that is larger
than 4 Gigabytes
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Although you can create multiple FAT32 partitions on the Link Disk, the
HDD/DVD Media Player can only browse and playback media located in the
first (Primary) partition.
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The Windows Xp/2000 “New Partition Wizard” cannot create FAT32 partitions
larger 32 Gigabytes. This limitation is due to the Xp/2000 Operating System,
not the FAT32 file system. FDISK and other disk-partitioning utilities can
create FAT32 partitions much larger than 32Gb. Despite these limits when
partitioning new FAT32 drives, Windows Xp/2000 can still read and write to
drives that already have FAT32 partitions larger than 32Gb.
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