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December 20th 09, 03:53 AM
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Formatting and Restoring Hard Drive
I regularly image my WinXP and Win98 hard drives using Acronis 8.
I have a new external hard drive, which I divided it into two partitions... one for NTFS and one for FAT32. I image my Win98 drives to the FAT 32 partition. I see that Acronis divides the image into several 3.99 GB files. There can be several of them. On my older external drive, I imaged the Win98 drives onto the NTFS formatted hard drive. I never had any problem restoring back to a Win98 drive from the NTFS drive. I'm wondering if there's any advantage to restoring all those multiple 3.99GB image files to a Win98 drive that way? It seems so much simpler just to have one file for each drive image. Thanks! Scott 
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December 20th 09, 04:53 AM
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On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:53:49 -0600, "Scott" wrote:
I regularly image my WinXP and Win98 hard drives using Acronis 8. I have a new external hard drive, which I divided it into two partitions... one for NTFS and one for FAT32. I image my Win98 drives to the FAT 32 partition. I see that Acronis divides the image into several 3.99 GB files. There can be several of them. On my older external drive, I imaged the Win98 drives onto the NTFS formatted hard drive. I never had any problem restoring back to a Win98 drive from the NTFS drive. I'm wondering if there's any advantage to restoring all those multiple 3.99GB image files to a Win98 drive that way? It seems so much simpler just to have one file for each drive image. Thanks! Scott Four gigabytes is the maximum size of a file on a FAT32 drive.
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December 20th 09, 05:10 AM
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Formatting and Restoring Hard Drive
The maximum file size supported by FAT32 is 4GB.
--- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est On 12/19/2009 10:53 PM, Scott wrote: I regularly image my WinXP and Win98 hard drives using Acronis 8. I have a new external hard drive, which I divided it into two partitions... one for NTFS and one for FAT32. I image my Win98 drives to the FAT 32 partition. I see that Acronis divides the image into several 3.99 GB files. There can be several of them. On my older external drive, I imaged the Win98 drives onto the NTFS formatted hard drive. I never had any problem restoring back to a Win98 drive from the NTFS drive. I'm wondering if there's any advantage to restoring all those multiple 3.99GB image files to a Win98 drive that way? It seems so much simpler just to have one file for each drive image. Thanks! Scott
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December 20th 09, 02:54 PM
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On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:53:49 -0600, "Scott" wrote:
I regularly image my WinXP and Win98 hard drives using Acronis 8. I have a new external hard drive, which I divided it into two partitions... one for NTFS and one for FAT32. I image my Win98 drives to the FAT 32 partition. I see that Acronis divides the image into several 3.99 GB files. There can be several of them. On my older external drive, I imaged the Win98 drives onto the NTFS formatted hard drive. I never had any problem restoring back to a Win98 drive from the NTFS drive. I'm wondering if there's any advantage to restoring all those multiple 3.99GB image files to a Win98 drive that way? It seems so much simpler just to have one file for each drive image. Acronis has no choice. It is creating the maximum file size possible for a FAT32 volume. One of the many advantages of NTFS is that it doesn't have this restriction. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup
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December 20th 09, 10:50 PM
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"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message news  On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:53:49 -0600, "Scott" wrote: I regularly image my WinXP and Win98 hard drives using Acronis 8. I have a new external hard drive, which I divided it into two partitions... one for NTFS and one for FAT32. I image my Win98 drives to the FAT 32 partition. I see that Acronis divides the image into several 3.99 GB files. There can be several of them. On my older external drive, I imaged the Win98 drives onto the NTFS formatted hard drive. I never had any problem restoring back to a Win98 drive from the NTFS drive. I'm wondering if there's any advantage to restoring all those multiple 3.99GB image files to a Win98 drive that way? It seems so much simpler just to have one file for each drive image. Acronis has no choice. It is creating the maximum file size possible for a FAT32 volume. One of the many advantages of NTFS is that it doesn't have this restriction. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup Ken, Yes, I understand that 4GB is the maximum for FAT 32. Do you see any problem with imaging a FAT32 drive to an NTFS drive and then having Acronis restore it back to the FAT32 drive? It seems to restore okay doing it this way. Thanks! Scott
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December 20th 09, 11:59 PM
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Formatting and Restoring Hard Drive
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:50:05 -0600, "Scott" wrote:
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message news On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:53:49 -0600, "Scott" wrote: I regularly image my WinXP and Win98 hard drives using Acronis 8. I have a new external hard drive, which I divided it into two partitions... one for NTFS and one for FAT32. I image my Win98 drives to the FAT 32 partition. I see that Acronis divides the image into several 3.99 GB files. There can be several of them. On my older external drive, I imaged the Win98 drives onto the NTFS formatted hard drive. I never had any problem restoring back to a Win98 drive from the NTFS drive. I'm wondering if there's any advantage to restoring all those multiple 3.99GB image files to a Win98 drive that way? It seems so much simpler just to have one file for each drive image. Acronis has no choice. It is creating the maximum file size possible for a FAT32 volume. One of the many advantages of NTFS is that it doesn't have this restriction. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup Ken, Yes, I understand that 4GB is the maximum for FAT 32. Do you see any problem with imaging a FAT32 drive to an NTFS drive and then having Acronis restore it back to the FAT32 drive? It seems to restore okay doing it this way. I don't know a whole lot about True Image's capabilities, but if you say it can do it, I believe you. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup
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