Formatting and Restoring Hard Drive
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From: Ken Blake, MVP on 20 Dec 2009 18:59 On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:50:05 -0600, "Scott" <golden(a)uslink.net> wrote: > > "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake(a)this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message > news:oiesi5l5iaa49m5o7mjhdl8gb3ltsjr906(a)4ax.com... > > > > On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:53:49 -0600, "Scott" <golden(a)uslink.net> 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 |