Pc operation, About the file system of hard disk drive – Mobile Video HDD HV356T User Manual
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About the File System of Hard Disk Drive
The Mobile Video HDD is pre-formatted as a FAT32 disk. You can directly access this drive
after it is connected to PC. If you want to re-partition the disk, please note:
Although your operating system may support several different file systems, FAT32 or NTFS
partitions are strongly recommended. When using the Mobile Video HDD as a media
player, it can only read NTFS or FAT32 partition.
Although you can create multiple partitions on the hard disk drive, when using the
Mobile Video HDD as a media player, it can only browse and play the media files
located in the first “Primary” partition.
See “How to Partition the Hard Disk Drive” section to create or to change the partition. The
following information will help you decide which file system is best for you.
NTFS File System
NTFS file system can support very large files (no 4GB size limitation for single file), and it is
compatible with Windows Vista/XP/2000. If your PC or laptop computer runs Windows
Vista/XP/2000 as its OS, partitioning and formatting the Mobile Video HDD as NTFS is
recommended.
FAT32 File System
The FAT32 file system is required if your computer uses Windows 98SE, Windows ME or the
Mac OS X operating systems. These operating systems do not support NTFS file system
(while Windows Vista/XP/2000 would support both FAT32 and NTFS file systems). The
FAT32 file system has some limitations, but it is supported by many different operating
systems, i.e. Windows 98/ME, Linux, Mac OS, etc. Even if your computer does support
NTFS partitions, a FAT32 partition might still be a better choice if you expect to copy files
between different operating systems.
Hard disk drives formatted as FAT32 volumes have the following limitations:
This drive cannot store any file larger than 4GB in size.
The Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2000 “New Partition Wizard” cannot
create FAT32 partition larger than 32GB in size. This limitation is due to the Windows
Vista/XP/2000 operating system, not the FAT32 file system. FDISK and other
disk-partitioning utilities can create FAT32 partitions much larger than 32GB. Despite
these limits in partitioning new FAT32 drives, Windows Vista/XP/2000 can still access
FAT32 partitioned drives larger than 32GB.