Partitioning Your Verbatim Mobile Hard Drive - Verbatim Mobile Hard Drive User Manual

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Chapter 5: Partitioning your Verbatim Mobile Hard Drive
5.1 General information
Your Verbatim Mobile 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 Verbatim Mobile
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 Verbatim Mobile Hard Drive 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 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..x
Mac OS X 10..x
Mac OS X 10.4.x
Mac OS X 10.5.x
Mac OS X 10.6.x

Partitioning your Verbatim Mobile Hard Drive

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