First Time User Confusion

I got a 500 GB External HD as a gift. I did a complete backup of my C: drive. It took about 10 hours to finish but it ended successfully - I think. When I go to my new H: drive, it shows 8 files:

acronis bakup of c drv to external HD8
acronis bakup of c drv to external HD7
acronis bakup of c drv to external HD6
acronis bakup of c drv to external HD5
acronis bakup of c drv to external HD4
acronis bakup of c drv to external HD3
acronis bakup of c drv to external HD2
acronis bakup of c drv to external HD1

All are 4,194,304 KB in size except the 8th one which is about half that.

I did a complete backup of the C: drive before but to a 2nd, internal HD. It creates a single file of approximately 32.1 GB. Why does the external drive end up with 8 files and the internal drive a single file? Not brave enough to try a restore.

 

HI ldkamb, welcome to Wilders.

As your thread is in regards to Acronis True Image I have moved it here where it will receive better attention.

Cheers

 

Probably because the external drive is formatted as FAT32, the maximum file size supported by FAT32 is 4GB. I assume your internal backup drive is NTFS - which has a maximum file size of 16TB.

F.

 

You could reformat your external drive in NTFS...

Why HD1 to HD8? Is it not *1.tib to *8.tib?

 

All. Thanks for the info. I think I will try the reformat route. I don't know why HD1 to HD8. I did a screen shot and printed it out so I could type it in exactly as it appeared.

 

Actually, one convert a drive from FAT16 or FAT32 *to* NTFS without reformatting? But one can't go back *from* NTFS to FAT without reformatting.


To convert a volume to NTFS from the command prompt
Open the Command Prompt window.
In the command prompt window, type
convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs

For example, typing convert D: /fs:ntfs would format drive D: with the ntfs format.

good luck,
sh

 

Hello Idklamb,

No doubt you named your backup "acronis bakup of c drv to external HD". When splitting an image TI will incrementally append a number to the end of each chunk. To see the .tib extentions you need to open Windows Explorer and click on Tools > Folder Options. On the View tab, uncheck the Hide extensions for known file types tickbox and, whilst you're at it, I recommend that you check the Show hidden files and folders radio button if not already done. See screenshot below.

Regards