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I tried to use my Acronis True Image Home 2009 to make a backup copy of my C: drive on my aux hard drive. I ran the program and then went into the aux drive (F:) to see what I got. I found 14 items called MyBackup1.tib, MyBackup2.tib...MyBackup14.tib. They were all of the size 4,194,304 kb except for the last one which was 1, 851,129 kb.

It would appear that Acronis copied my C: drive 13 or 14 times, unless it just copies part of the drive at a time. I don't understand the last one being so different in size from the other 13.

What has happened? Has Acronis really copied my information 14 (actually 13+) times for some reason? Where would I have told it to copy 14 times? Or did it copy my information in 14 sections?

Thanks for telling me the answer to this.

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The F: drive is most likely formatted as FAT32. FAT32 has a maximum file size of 4GB. Because of this, TI must split the image file into multiple files. The last file is usually smaller. All of the files together make the complete backup image (there are not 13+ copies).

Ah, thanks. I thought this might be the case (because of the last file being a different and smaller size). I thought it was odd that they were all perfectly the same exact size thought.

I also wonder if it is possible to copy the C: drive all in one piece and not multiple pieces. I suppose that I would have to reformat my F: drive differently, but how? Just curious.

Hello,

Thank you for posting your question, I will be happy to help.

I would like to express my appreciation to Mudcrab that he identified the exact reason of the program behavior.

Fabienne,

You are able to convert FAT32 file system to NTFS without data loss using Microsoft convert.exe utility:

1. Click Start, click Programs, Accessories, and then click Command Prompt

2. At the command prompt, type CONVERT [driveletter]: /FS:NTFS

3. Convert.exe will attempt to convert the partition to NTFS

For information on how to convert FAT disks to NTFS, please see Microsoft TechNet article: How to Convert FAT Disks to NTFS

Please do not hesitate to ask additional questions if the provided information is not clear or you need a further assistance. 

Thank you.