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Chapter: Partitioning your Freecom Mobile Hard Drive / Desktop
Hard Drive
General information
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 files on any PC. It is recommended
not to change the current configuration of your Freecom Mobile Hard Drive / Desktop
Hard Drive.
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 Mobile Hard Drive / Desktop Hard Drive to your needs.
File System features
Please refer to the tables below for an overview:
File systems supported by different operating systems
File system
Operating system
Windows XP / Vista / 7
Mac OS X
Maximum size of a partition
File system
Operating system
Windows XP / Vista / 7
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
Mac OS X 10.6.x
FAT
FAT
yes
yes
yes
yes
FAT
FAT
4 GB*
32 GB
-
128 GB
-
128 GB
-
( -> 128 GB)
-
( -> 128 GB)
-
( -> 128 GB)
-
( -> 128 GB)
FREECOM MOBILE HARD DRIVE
FREECOM DESKTOP HARD DRIVE
NTFS
yes
yes
(only read)
NTFS
16 TB
-
-
-
-
-
-
HFS+
no
yes
HFS+
-
2 TB
8 TB
16 TB
16 TB
16 TB
16 TB
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