Partitioning Your Freecom Hard Drive Xs - Freecom Hard Drive XS User Manual

Chapter 5: Partitioning your Freecom Hard Drive XS
5.1 General information
Your Freecom Hard Drive XS 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 XS.
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 XS to your needs.
5. File System features
Please refer to the tables below for an overview:
File systems supported by different operating systems
File system
Operating system
Windows 2000
Windows XP / Vista
Mac OS X
Maximum size of a partition
File system
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.

Partitioning your Freecom Hard Drive XS

FAT FAT
yes yes
yes yes
yes yes
FAT FAT
4 GB* 32 GB
4 GB* 32 GB
- 128 GB
- 128 GB
- ( -> 128 GB)
- ( -> 128 GB)
- ( -> 128 GB)
NTFS HFS+
yes no
yes no
yes yes
(only read)
NTFS HFS+
16 TB -
16 TB -
- 2 TB
- 8 TB
- 16 TB
- 16 TB
- 16 TB
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