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Operating system
Chapter 7: Partitioning your Freecom Hard Drive
7.1 General information
Your Freecom Hard Drive was partitioned and formatted to provide you with the
maximum available capacity and compatibility. FAT32 was chosen as file system to
assure that you will be able to read your files on any PC. It is recommended not to change
the current configuration of your Freecom Hard Drive.
For some users another file system might fit better for their needs. This manual describes
current limitations of most common file systems and Instructions to enable you to adapt
the Freecom Hard Drive to your needs.
7.2 File System features
Please refer to the tables below for an overview:
File systems supported by different operating systems
FAT
FAT32
NTFS
HFS+
Windows 2000
yes
yes
yes
no
Windows XP
yes
yes
yes
no
Mac OS X
yes
yes
yes
(only read)
yes
Maximum size of a partition
FAT
FAT32
NTFS
HFS+
Windows 2000
4 GB*
32 GB
16 TB
-
Windows XP
4 GB*
32 GB
16 TB
-
Mac OS X 10.1.x
-
128 GB
-
2 TB
Mac OS X 10.2.x
-
128 GB
-
8 TB
Mac OS X 10.3.x
-
( -> 128 GB)
-
16 TB
Mac OS X 10.4.x
-
( -> 128 GB)
-
16 TB
Partitioning your Freecom Hard Drive
