Partitioning Your Toughdrive Leather - Freecom Tough Drive Leather User Manual

Freecom ToughDrive Leather
Chapter 6: Partitioning your ToughDrive Leather
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6.1 General information
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Your ToughDrive Leather 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 ToughDrive Leather.
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 ToughDrive Leather to your needs.
6. File System features
Please refer to the tables below for an overview:
File systems supported by different operating systems
Operating system
Windows 2000
Windows XP / Vista
Mac OS X
Maximum size of a partition
Operating system
Windows 2000
Windows XP / Vista
Mac OS X 10.1.x
Mac OS X 10.2.x
Mac OS X 10.3.x
Mac OS X 10.4.x
Mac OS X 10.5.x
* FAT partitions larger than 2 GB can only be administrated by Windows 2000 / XP / Vista.
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File system
FAT
yes
yes
yes
File system
FAT
4 GB*
4 GB*
-
-
-
-
-
FAT NTFS
yes yes
yes yes
yes yes
(only read)
FAT NTFS
32 GB 16 TB
32 GB 16 TB
128 GB -
128 GB -
( -> 128 GB) -
( -> 128 GB) -
( -> 128 GB) -
HFS+
no
no
yes
HFS+
-
-
2 TB
8 TB
16 TB
16 TB
16 TB