Freecom Technologies manual Partitioning your FHD-3, General information, File System features

Partitioning your FHD-3

Chapter 6: Partitioning your FHD-3

6.1 General information

Your FHD-3 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 FHD-3.

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 FHD-3 to your needs.

6.2 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
Maximum size of a partition
File system	FAT	FAT32	NTFS
Operating system
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

*1: A patch for Windows 98SE is required for hard disk larger than 60 GB. Further information and an update to fix this problem can be found in article 263044 of the "Microsoft Knowledge Base"on the Microsoft Website under http://support.microsoft.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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