Chapter 7; Chapter 7: Partitioning Your Freecom Mediaplayer-3 (Pc Only); File System Features - Freecom MediaPlayer-3 Manual

Chapter 7: Partitioning your Freecom MediaPlayer-3
(PC only)
7.1 General information
Your MediaPlayer-3 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 MediaPlayer-3.
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 MediaPlayer-3 to your needs.

7.2 File System features

Please refer to the tables below for an overview:
File systems supported by different operating systems
File system
Operating system
Windows 98SE
Windows ME
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Maximum size of a partition
File system
Operating system
Windows 98SE
Windows ME
Windows 2000
Windows XP
*1 : A patch for Windows 98SE is required for hard disk larger than 60 GB. Further information and an
update to fix this problem can be found in article 263044 of the "Microsoft Knowledge Base"on the
Microsoft Website under http://support.microsoft.com.
: Hard disk capacity will not be displayed correctly by fdisk!
*2
: FAT partitions larger than 2 GB can only be administrated by Windows 2000/XP.
*3
Partitioning your Freecom MediaPlayer-3 (PC only)
FAT FAT32
yes yes
yes yes
yes yes
yes yes
FAT FAT32
2 GB 60 GB
2 GB 2 TB
4 GB 32 GB
*3
4 GB 32 GB
*3
NTFS
not supported
not supported
yes
yes
NTFS
n.a.
*1, 2
*2 n.a.
16 TB
16 TB
GB
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