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Chapter : Partitioning your HD
.1 General information
Your hard drive must be partitioned and formatted before it can be used.
This chapter describes current limitations of most common file systems and
instructions to enable you to adapt your 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
Mac OS X
Maximum size of a partition
File system
Operating system
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 XP / Vista.
FAT
FAT
yes
yes
yes
yes
FAT
FAT
4 GB*
32 GB
-
128 GB
-
128 GB
-
( -> 128 GB)
-
( -> 128 GB)
-
( -> 128 GB)
Partitioning your HD
NTFS
HFS+
yes
no
yes
yes
(only read)
NTFS
HFS+
16 TB
-
-
2 TB
-
8 TB
-
16 TB
-
16 TB
-
16 TB
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