General Information - Verbatim HARD DRIVE User Manual

Chapter: Partitioning your Verbatim Hard Drive

General information

Your Verbatim 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 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 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 FAT32
yes
yes
FAT FAT32
4 GB*
- 128 GB
- 128 GB
- ( -> 128 GB)
- ( -> 128 GB)
- ( -> 128 GB)
- ( -> 128 GB)
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NTFS
yes yes
yes yes
(only read)
NTFS
32 GB 16 TB
-
-
-
-
-
-
EN
HFS+
no
yes
HFS+
-
2 TB
8 TB
16 TB
16 TB
16 TB
16 TB
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