Large Drive Support; Partitioning A Disk - Castlewood USB ORB 2.2 GB Owner's Manual

2.5

LARGE DRIVE SUPPORT

Windows Environment
Win 98/98SE / Win 2000 (SP2+) / Win ME / Win XP or later support the use of
partitions greater than 2GB (gigabytes) in capacity with FAT32. The maximum
supported partition size is 2TB (terabytes). Large drive partition support can
help you dramatically reduce the amount of wasted space on your computer’s
hard disk.
One should be aware that this FAT32 configured partition can only be recognized
and accessed by Win 98/98SE / Win 2000 (SP2+) / Win ME / Win XP or later.
Mac Environment
Mac OS 8.1 and later supports Mac OS Extended File Format (HFS+). This
large drive partition support can help you dramatically reduce the amount of
wasted space on your ORB Disk.
2.6

PARTITIONING A DISK

The ORB disk is a high quality and high capacity hard disk. It is pre-formatted
with one 2.16GB extended FAT16 partition. The ORB drive and disk partition
behave like any hard disk drive that you have on your system. The table below
shows the format options that exist to you based on your operating system.
Partition Options Table
Operating System
Win 98/98SE
Win 2000 (SP2+)
Win ME
Win XP
Mac OS 8.6
Note: 1 GB = 1 billion bytes = 1,000,000,000 bytes
Value = Maximum Partition Size
NVO = Not Valid Option
† In order to repartition to NTFS, the drive needs
to be in fixed mode.
FAT16 FAT32
2.16GB 2.2GB
2.16GB 2.2GB
2.16GB 2.2GB
2.16GB 2.2GB
1.9GB 2.2GB
Table 1
13
NTFS Mac
NVO NVO
2.2GB† NVO
NVO NVO
2.2GB† NVO
NVO 2.2GB