Formatting and Restoring Hard Drive
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From: Scott on 19 Dec 2009 22:53 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
From: Andy on 19 Dec 2009 23:53 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. > >Thanks! >Scott > Four gigabytes is the maximum size of a file on a FAT32 drive. > >
From: Leonard Grey on 20 Dec 2009 00:10 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 > > > >
From: Ken Blake, MVP on 20 Dec 2009 09:54 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
From: Scott on 20 Dec 2009 17:50
"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. Thanks! Scott |