Partitioning your HD
Chapter 3: Partitioning your HD
3.1 General information
Your hard drive must be partitioned and formatted before it can be used. This chapter describes current limitations of most common file systems and instructions to enable you to adapt your hard drive to your needs.
3.2 File System features
Please refer to the tables below for an overview:
File systems supported by different operating systems
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Windows XP / Vista / 7 | yes | yes | yes | no | |
Mac OS X | yes | yes | yes (only read) | yes | |
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Windows XP / Vista / 7 | 4 GB* | 32 GB | 16 TB | - | |
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Mac OS X 10.1.x | - | 128 GB | - | 2 TB | |
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Mac OS X 10.2.x | - | 128 GB | - | 8 TB | |
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Mac OS X 10.3.x | - | ( | - | 16 TB | |
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Mac OS X 10.4.x | - | ( | - | 16 TB | |
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Mac OS X 10.5.x | - | ( | - | 16 TB | |
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Mac OS X 10.6.x | - | ( | - | 16 TB | |
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* FAT partitions larger than 2 GB can only be administrated by Windows XP / Vista / 7. | |
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