Freecom Hard Drive Quattro 2.0 User Manual - Manual (Page 11)

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Partitioning your Freecom Hard Drive Quattro
Chapter 4: Partitioning your Freecom Hard Drive Quattro
4.1 General information
Your Freecom Hard Drive Quattro 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 Freecom Hard Drive Quattro.
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 Hard Drive Quattro to your needs.
4. 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 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 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
* FAT partitions larger than 2 GB can only be administrated by Windows XP / Vista.