Freecom Technologies Desktop Hard Drives, Mobile Hard Drives Chapter: Partitioning your Freecom Mobile Hard Drive / Desktop Hard Drive

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Chapter: Partitioning your Freecom Mobile Hard Drive / Desktop Hard Drive

Your Freecom Mobile Hard Drive / Desktop 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 fi les on any PC. It is recommended

not to change the current configuration of your Freecom Mobile Hard Drive / Desk top

Hard Drive.

For some users another file system might fit better for their needs . This manual describes

current limitations of most common file sys tems and Instructions to enable you to adapt

the Freecom Mobile Hard Drive / Desktop Hard Drive to your needs.

Please refer to the tables below for an overview:

File systems supported by dif ferent operating sys tems

File system

Operating system

FAT FAT32 NTFS HFS+

Windows XP / Vista / 7 yes yes yes no

Mac OS X yes yes yes (only read) yes

Maximum size of a partitio n

File system

Operating system

FAT FAT32 NTFS HFS+

Windows XP / Vista / 7 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

Mac OS X 10.5.x - ( -> 128 GB) - 16 TB

Mac OS X 10.6.x - ( -> 128 GB) - 16 TB