Partitioning Your Hd; File System Features; File Systems Supported By Different Operating Systems; Maximum Size Of A Partition - Freecom HARD DRIVE DOCK User Manual

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Chapter: Partitioning your HD
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 / 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 partitions larger than 2 GB can only be administrated by Windows XP / Vista / 7.
FAT FAT
yes yes
yes yes
FAT FAT
4 GB* 32 GB
- 128 GB
- 128 GB
- ( -> 128 GB)
- ( -> 128 GB)
- ( -> 128 GB)
- ( -> 128 GB)
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NTFS HFS+
yes no
yes yes
(only read)
NTFS HFS+
16 TB
- 2 TB
- 8 TB
- 16 TB
- 16 TB
- 16 TB
- 16 TB
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