TI 10 create a backup acting strange

[gbp007]

Im having a confusing problem and it's that i just got a brand new 160 gb wd hard drive and i created a backup of my c and d drive using ti 10 and after the backup was done then i saw that it had backed up 7 tib files instead of just one tib file like it should be...When i look at each tib file the size is 3.99 except for tib file 7 which says 2.55mb...Even if i just backup the c drive it will show 5 tib files for the c drive..this is happening in vista and xp also..This dont happen with my other hd drive which is 465 gb but it's happening with the new hard drive..Im doing it normally as usual by choosing create a full backup archive with the default option and im totally clueless as to what is going on and maybe somebody could help me ?

i included a pic of what it looked like after i created the backup on my new hd -

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/8430/30322932sf6.jpg

[Acronis Support]

Hello gbp007,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup software

The reason is quite simple. You're saving your backup to the hard drive with FAT32 file system. This file system has maximum file size limitation, so Acronis True Image 10.0 Home is forced to split image archive. You can convert FAT32 file system to NTFS with Windows tools without any data loss.

Thank you
--
Michael Levchenko

[shieber]

NTFS is a safer file system to use than FAT because NTFS is a journaling file system.

You can find the steps for converting a disk from FAT to NTFS without losing data here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881

good luck,

[gbp007]

That was exactly the problem i was having..I since reformatted my hard drive to ntfs and now is working fine and saving it all in 1 tib file ..thanks for the help

[shieber]

Note that do one doesn't have to use the full reformat command, instead one can use the convert command and reasonably quickly make the change from TAF to NTFS and all progs and data onthe disk will be preserved. If one uses the format command, everything on the disk is lost.