General information, File system features – Freecom Mobile Drive Mg User Manual
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FREECOM MOBILE HARD DRIVE
FREECOM DESKTOP HARD DRIVE
Chapter: Partitioning your Freecom Mobile Hard Drive / Desktop
Hard Drive
General information
Your Freecom Mobile Hard Drive / Desktop Hard Drive was partitioned and formatted to
provide you with the maximum available capacity and compatibility.
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 Freecom Mobile Hard Drive / Desktop 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
FAT
FAT
NTFS
HFS+
Windows XP / Vista / 7
yes
yes
yes
no
Mac OS X
yes
yes
yes
(only read)
yes
Maximum size of a partition
File system
Operating system
FAT
FAT
NTFS
HFS+
Windows XP / Vista / 7
4 GB*
32 GB
16 TB
-
Mac OS X 10.1.x
-
128 GB
-
2 TB
Mac OS X 10.2.x
-
128 GB
-
8 TB
Mac OS X 10.3.x
-
( -> 128 GB)
-
16 TB
Mac OS X 10.4.x
-
( -> 128 GB)
-
16 TB
Mac OS X 10.5.x
-
( -> 128 GB)
-
16 TB
Mac OS X 10.6.x
-
( -> 128 GB)
-
16 TB
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Note: If you select NTFS as file system, the data of your Freecom Mobile
Hard Drive / Desktop Hard Drive can be read only under Mac OS X.
There is no possibility to write data.