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CHAPTER 5: Partitioning your FHD-1
5.1 General information
Your
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
5.2 File System features
Please refer to the tables below for an overview:
File systems supported by different operating systems
File system | FAT | FAT32 | NTFS |
Operating system | |||
Windows 98SE | yes | yes | not supported |
Windows ME | yes | yes | not supported |
Windows 2000 | yes | yes | yes |
Windows XP | yes | yes | yes |
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File system | FAT | FAT32 | NTFS |
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Windows 98SE | 2 GB | 60 GB *1, 2 | n.a. |
Windows ME | 2 GB | 2 TB *2 | n.a. |
Windows 2000 | 4 GB *3 | 32 GB | 16 TB |
Windows XP | 4 GB *3 | 32 GB | 16 TB |
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*1: A patch for Windows 98SE is required for hard disk larger than 60 GB. This patch can be downloaded at www.freecom.com.
*2: Hard disk capacity will not be displayed correctly by fdisk!
*3: FAT partitions larger than 2 GB can only be administrated by Windows 2000/ XP.
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