Partitioning your Freecom Hard Drive Pro
Chapter 7: Partitioning your Freecom Hard Drive Pro
7.1 General information
Your Freecom Hard Drive Pro 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 Pro.
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 Pro to your needs.
7.2 File System features
Please refer to the tables below for an overview:
File systems supported by different operating systems
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Windows 2000 | yes | yes | yes | no | |
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Windows XP | yes | yes | yes | no | |
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MacOS X | yes | yes | yes (only read) | yes | |
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Windows 2000 | 4 GB* | 32 GB | 16 TB | - | |
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Windows XP | 4 GB* | 32 GB | 16 TB | - | |
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 | |
Mac OS X 10.4.x | - | ( | - | 16 TB | |
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* FAT partitions larger than 2 GB can only be administrated by Windows 2000/XP.
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