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Freecom HD Dock
Chapter : Partitioning your HD
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.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 instruc-
tions 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
Operating system
Windows XP / Vista
Mac OS X
Maximum size of a partition
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 2000 / XP / Vista.

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